Ubuntu oneric ocelot 11.10: adding a favourite lancher when you can’t use Keep in launcher

Sometimes in the new Ubuntu Oneric Ocelot 11.1 launching a program and selecting ‘Keep in launcher’ is not enough. This may happen if your program requires special startup parameters, or simply because it requires a terminal to run in, ala’ Matlab. Creating a launcher on the desktop is not simply as right clicking to ‘create launcher’ as it was in older versions.
I wandered a while before finding my answer here (thanks to Bruno Pereira), as others where that useful to me.

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Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

took a little time to write about.  Pain takes time, and words are slow. For everyone who lived the computer revolution and watched mesmerized Macintosh products in shops, enough said. Now people are excited and are repeating the old mantra. I wonder if they understand what they repeat. I wonder if this excitement will last. … Leggi tutto