Added custom Program Shortcuts in gnome3. to install alacarte, run the following command on the command line to install the alacarte program yum-y install alacarte, enter the following command in the command line to start alacarte to manage shortcuts for All Programs # alacarte you can click the New Item button in the location where you want to add shortcuts, here is the same as the gnome2 operation 2. manually add a shortcut configuration file to store the shortcut configuration files of all programs in the/usr/share/application directory. at the end of desktop, we can add a new configuration file in this directory to add the shortcut configuration file. The parameters are as follows: Name: program shortcut Name Comment: program shortcut description Exec: the program executable file path Terminal: The program execution method. true indicates that the program is executed in the command line. falase indicates the opposite Type: program Type. The default value is ApplicationCategories: program category in the Application panel, StartupNotify: Specifies whether the program is started or disabled. The default value is trueIcon: the path of the program icon. If only the name is entered, therefore, gnome will search for this image in/usr/share/icons. Here is a simple example. I created a Komodo Edit shortcut named komodo. desktop, the content is as follows [Desktop Entry] Name = Komodo EditComment = MyDevelopmentIcon =/home/App/Komodo-edit/share/icons/komodo256.pngExec =/home/App/Komodo-edit/bin/komodoTerminal = falseType = ApplicationCategories = Development; after StartupNotify = true is saved, we can see it in the program list.