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[active8r]

ADD icons to the task bar with LM 11 XFCE

was the subject and there is only one return matching that if you search on that. A post by guido8. The reply says

"Moved here by moderator" and the link is not even broken, it's not a link.

In LXDE I can't even drag the icon in the address bar to the destop like Guido can. It just runs back to the FF address bar.

[viking777]

viewtopic.php?f=57&t=91863&p=527555&hilit=ADD+icons+to+the+task+bar+with+LM+11+XFCE#p527519

[Aging Technogeek]

If you want to put app launcher icons on the panel in LXDE, you have to right click the panel and choose "Panel Settings" from the menu. In Panel Settings , open the Panel Applets tab and click Add. From the applets menu, select Application Launch Bar. It will be indicated on the panel by a red cross. Click on the cross and select Application Launch Bar Settings. From the menu list in the right window, select an app you want and click Add. It will appear in the left window and on the panel.

[active8r]

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=91863&p=527555&hilit=ADD+icons+to+the+task+bar+with+LM+11+XFCE#p527519

gee... thanks. That's the same post with the "Moved here by moderator" link that's not a link.

I wonder where the moderator moved THE WHOLE THREAD

Oh... I get it! It was a statement meaning that where I found it is where the mod moved it. I would've thought the OP would have got an answer even if it was, "Sorry pal. You can't." So I was looking for the aforementioned statement to be a link to the new location of the thread.

[active8r]

If you want to put app launcher icons on the panel in LXDE, you have to right click the panel and choose "Panel Settings" from the menu. In Panel Settings , open the Panel Applets tab and click Add. From the applets menu, select Application Launch Bar. It will be indicated on the panel by a red cross. Click on the cross and select Application Launch Bar Settings. From the menu list in the right window, select an app you want and click Add. It will appear in the left window and on the panel.

And that's not what the OP was asking. I don't think you CAN drag urls to the desktop or the taskbar.

And I've done that. I even figgered out how to copy. paste modify to get a new desktop icon, and create one from scatch. For my next act, I'll do the same thing on the launch bar. When I find the need to and when I find the file where they hang out.

[sanda]

I don't think you CAN drag urls to the desktop or the taskbar.

yeah, Xfce forces ya to "create a custom launcher"

What linux app, or widget, can operate as a drop target for a URL (dragged from browser addressbar?
So far, I haven't found many such apps.
webmarx? no. (go figure!)
cherrytree / notekeeper / notecase / keepnote / gjots? no.
docky / awn / wbar? no.
folderview screenlet? no.

tomboy notes accepts a URL dragged from the browser addressbar, resulting in an embedded hyperlink
(the text label displayed is the httpblahblah url string, not something more freinedly, like the webpage title text)