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    Tofloor
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    xskyfire
    deepin
    2016-03-24 09:09
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    so i made a shortcut via the
    1. gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/.local/share/applications --create-new
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    now, i seem to have failed to make it run and i want to delete it. i searched in
    1. /usr/share/applications
    2. and
    3. /usr/local/share/applications
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    but i can't seem to locate the generated .desktop file

    hoping somecan can pinpoint it to me. thank you so much
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    dance707
    deepin
    2016-03-24 15:08
    #1
    Its not easy to say from the information you provided. You could try searching with the Nautilus file manager by Ctrl + f
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    dance707
    deepin
    2016-03-24 22:37
    #2
    Also on my system I do not show the gnome-desktop-item-edit , what version of Deepin have you installed ?
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    xskyfire
    deepin
    2016-03-25 06:37
    #3
    well, i searched for a way to create shorcuts on linux. and i found that "gnome-desktop-item-edit" thing. i think it works as is, but the problem i have now is how to delete created shortcuts from that.
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    dance707
    deepin
    2016-03-25 07:01
    #4
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30880
    well, i searched for a way to create shorcuts on linux. and i found that "gnome-desktop-item-edit" t ...

    On my Deepin 15.1.1 systems it returns a command not found message.
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    xskyfire
    deepin
    2016-03-27 18:51
    #5
    well, you install it first via apt
    sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel
    then you run it
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    dance707
    deepin
    2016-03-27 20:08
    #6
    Edited by dance707 at 2016-3-26 22:26
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30880
    well, you install it first via apt  then you run it

    My concern is that installing gnome-panel into the Deepin system . While the roots of Deepin come from Gnome, the project has evolved into its own especially with this years version with a Gala based windows manager, HTML5, and QT. So not all of the old Gnome things are compatible with the Deepin OS. I would much rather see a manual method of creating shortcuts.
    That being said I tried your method and it does seem to work. I tested with a manual Firefox install. And following your method my .desktop file was in ~/.local/share/applications and I was able to delete it as well. Remeber that the tilde symbol followed by the slash symbol  ~/  refers to the users home in directory in Linux.
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