How to add your own web links to 'Connect'

By default there is "Hotmail", "Wikpedia" and "Google Maps", but I'd like to be able to add my own - especially as I can't get the messenger to work, even after a live update.

Is this possible?

 

You can ask firefox to launch with a specific website with a command line argument - just put the site address in quotes afterwards.

So if the command to launch firefox is firefox, then

Code:

firefox "www.something.com"

will launch firefox with something.com. Best way to proceed is to look at your .desktop file for firefox, see what the command in the exec= line is, and create a new .desktop file for your group-app.xml based on that.

(That's assuming you've searched for and found instructions on adding icon to the desktop)

 

Sorry, I don't quite understand, what do I need to add to the group-app.xml file? And is there anything else I have to do elsewhere?

 

For more info on editing your desktop try this thread.

But briefly, go into the terminal (alt-f2, type terminal) and enter

Code:

mousepad /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml

which will show you the file that controls the whole thing.

It's full of entries like this:
<app sequence="0">/usr/share/applications/linpus-web.desktop</app>
which gives a link to a .desktop file, which a file with info on the name, icon, command etc for the program. Go work out which is your firefox one using

Code:

sudo mousepad /usr/share/applications/whatever. desktop

and you'll find a line starting "exec=". Whatever follows that is the actual command to launch firefox. After all that, it'll probably turn out to just be firefox, but nevermind
So, to launch firefox with a particular page, you need to put "pagename" after it. Create a new .desktop file in the same dir (you could just copy the firefox one and adjust it) with your desired command. Then put an entry for it in group-app.xml (again, just copy the firefox one). Be careful of the "sequence=", each of which has to be unique for each entry in a section.

 

Thanks for the help - I've now got a fully working link to Meebo complete with the same icon used for the "messenger" app.