How do I pin a desktop shortcut to my panel?

[hybrid gazelle]

it doesn't show up in the start menu nor when right clicking

[astral owl]

can't you just drag and drop it onto your panel?

[hybrid gazelle]

no

I can't for some reason

[astral owl]

that's a shame

[craggy creek]

what desktop environment used?

[hybrid gazelle]

cinnamon
I don't know how to change it to something else yet

[craggy creek]

are you trying to save a program shortcut?

cuz it wont work with files, such as what is in 'recent files' only programs

if this is some unusual program you installed somehow, then please provide more info

[hybrid gazelle]

yeah
it's a shortcut to a .py application called zim

[craggy creek]

then you need to add an applet

go to APPLETS

show what currently is active

[hybrid gazelle]

basically the default

[craggy creek]

so the applet that handles the pinnable apps and the open running tasks is called the "grouped window list" It only works with registered applications. (same as applications that show up in categories of the start menu)

go to the "Download" tab in applets

and get some applet called Quicklaunch or launcher

then u add it to panel, put panel in edit mode, drag it to where you want it, then can make a custom launcher for your py path

[craggy creek]

did u get it, @hybrid gazelle ?

[hybrid gazelle]

there's a bunc h of launche applets

one called app launcher

[hybrid gazelle]

which one should I install?

[craggy creek]

app launcher should be fine

be sure to head back to the manage tab to activate it. (and possibly check its config button)

[pine pollen]

if you can find your application on the start menu, drag it from there and drop it on the panel where other pinned apps are.

[hybrid gazelle]

I can't

[pine pollen]

isn't it installed?

[hybrid gazelle]

yes but it's a custom shortcut I made

hence why I said desktop shortcut

[pine pollen]

try to open it from there and pin the open app (if you right click on its instance on the panel you'll get an option for that) to see if it works, otherwise go with other proposed solutions.

[hybrid gazelle]

it's a python file so, no basically
there was an app launcher I installed but it's more like this little side thing instead of an addition to the window manager

[craggy creek]

look for 'classic launchers' applet

[hybrid gazelle]

it's not there
not on download or installed

[pine pollen]

panel-launchers

[craggy creek]

that ^

[pine pollen]

wait, so you havent created the desktop file yet?

[hybrid gazelle]

I did

[pine pollen]

ok, you can place it at ~/.local/share/applications and it'll appear on the menu

from the menu you can drop it on the panel

[craggy creek]

must be a true .desktop file following the convention of the others

[pine pollen]

yes, if it's not correctly made it won't appear there

[hybrid gazelle]

how do you make it well amde

like, do you give it a comment or

[hybrid gazelle]

it's here
a lot of them are but don't show up tbh

I tried godot or journal but same thing basically

[pine pollen]

then the desktop files are not well formatted likely, how did you make them?

[hybrid gazelle]

through the desktop context menu action

[pine pollen]

if you click them from there, they work?

[hybrid gazelle]

yes

I gave them both comments through the text editor and they show up now

[pine pollen]

ah, I see

[hybrid gazelle]

thank you