shortcuts from .desktop files in AWN

[gamblor01]

Does anyone know if it's possible to create a shortcut group in AWN? I have been using Unity but recently switched over to gnome shell and have been playing around with it. To emulate the Unity launcher I installed AWN. It mostly works great, but there is one thing that I haven't figured out yet. I had written some python scripts to stop/start Tomcat, which I put into a shortcut group in a .desktop file and dragged it over to the launcher in Unity (see screenshot). This worked flawlessly.

Anyone know if I can accomplish this same thing with AWN? I tried dragging the .desktop file over but it doesn't work. It doesn't even show the icon in AWN, though oddly enough if I go look in the dock preferences it shows that it has a launcher in there.

[gamblor01]

Ok so for anyone interested, I did find a sort-of workaround for this. Instead of using a .desktop file from the launcher (in my case AWN dock now), I enabled the following extension:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/37/quicklaunch/


Then I just created a new launcher from there to my start and stop scripts. So I have to click on a different area of the screen now but it is functional.

I would still like to figure this out though. Who knows what I (or something else) might use it for in the future...

[gamblor01]

And just another update, it turns out that there is an extension for gnome shell that allows the use of Unity quicklists. Hope this helps someone:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/322/quicklists/