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Icons on your panel represent a web browser and several office productivity applications. You can add your own icons to launch applications from the panel as well. To add a new application launcher to the panel, follow these steps:

1 Right-click in an open space on the panel.

2 Click Add to Panel ➪ Application Launcher from the menu. All application categories from your Applications and System menus appear.

3 Select the arrow next to the category of application you want, and then select Add. An icon representing the application appears on the panel.

To launch the application that you just added, simply click the icon on the panel.

If the application that you want to launch is not on one of your menus, you can build a launcher yourself as follows:

1 Right-click in an open space on the panel.

2 Click Add to Panel ➪ Custom Application Launcher ➪ Add. The Create Launcher window appears.

3 Provide the following information for the application you want to add:Type. Select Application (to launch a regular GUI application) or Application in Terminal. Use Application in Terminal if the application is a character-based or ncurses application. (Applications written using the ncurses library run in a Terminal window but offer screen-oriented mouse and keyboard controls.)Name. Choose a name to identify the application. (This appears in the tooltip when your mouse is over the icon.)Command. This identifies the command line that is run when the application is launched. Use the full pathname, plus any required options.Comment. Enter a comment describing the application. It also appears when you later move your mouse over the launcher.

4 Click the Icon box (it might say No Icon), select one of the icons shown, and click OK. Alternatively, you can browse your filesystem to choose an icon.

5 Click OK.

The application should now appear in the panel. Click it to start the application.