On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Bret Busby
<bret@busby.net> wrote:
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:51:20AM +0900, Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> was heard to say:
The package is flightgear, the Flight Gear Flight simulator.
I installed flightgear on my computer overnight to test this myself,
and it does appear to go into the Gnome menu, under
"Applications -> Games". Its .desktop file should look like this:
$ cat /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Version=1.4
Name=FlightGear
Exec=fgfs
Terminal=false
Categories=Game;Simulation;
Comment=A flight simulator
Comment[pt]=Simulação de Vôo
Icon=
Daniel
Hello again.
Just thought t6hat I should advise:
Using vi, I created the above file, at the specified location, then ran update-menus.
do you also need to run update-desktop-database?
Flight Gear now has an entry in the Games menu, and the menu entry runs the application.
Now, all I have to do, is figure out how to use it, and learn to fly (kind of) using it, without crashing or causing other massive stuffups.
Thanks everyone, for your help.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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