Re: GNOME 2 and .desktop files in misc directories

[Albert Chin <gnome-list thewrittenword com>]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 01:29:13PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Albert Chin <gnome-list thewrittenword com> writes:
> > Is it possible to get GNOME 2 to recognize *.desktop files outside of
> > the GNOME installation prefix?
> > 
> 
> In /etc/gnome-vfs-something/*.vfolder-info, add <MergeDir> lines 
> for the other .desktop file location.

Ok, that worked. Is kill -HUP [gnome-panel PID] the way to restart
gnome-panel to recognize the new directory locations?

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albert chin (china thewrittenword com)