Launcher missing in CentOS 7 Gnome Desktop

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I installed Cent OS 7 in VMware Workstation by selecting Gnome Desktop option.

I don't see the "Create Launcher" and all other options which I used to get in Cent OS 6.5

Did I install incorrect Cent OS7 option?

Also, CentOS 7 seems to be slower than 6.5 whereas it was supposed to be faster.

What am I missing?

Freephone Panwal

Posted 2014-10-14T06:22:10.537

Reputation: 121

Answers

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Use alacarte to edit your application menu.

DESCRIPTION

alacarte provides a usable GUI for the users to easily add menu items, remove menu items, or otherwise modify the GNOME main menu.

If it's not installed:

# yum install alacarte

Performance is a very broad subject that depend on so many things, making it difficult to comment. It's also subjective, which is taboo on this site.

garethTheRed

Posted 2014-10-14T06:22:10.537

Reputation: 2 520

I installed alacarte, now where & how to edit it? Earlier with Cent OS 6.5, it used to appear directly on right click of mouse. Why is it made so difficult with Cent OS 7? – Freephone Panwal – 2014-10-14T22:21:55.023

Gnome 3 doesn't have such a menu as it doesn't support launchers on the desktop by default. There are hacks to do something similar. Have a look at this. You'll also need to enable Have filemanager handle the desktop in Gnome-Tweak-Tools for it to show up on the desktop. To start alacarte in order to edit your main menu, click on Applications -> Sundry -> Main Menu.

– garethTheRed – 2014-10-15T05:44:21.860

3"Gnome 3 ... doesn't support launchers on the desktop by default" WTF? Because no user would ever want this? – Kutzi – 2015-11-30T10:06:03.500