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Slingshot is installed and works fine.
But trying to get some info on it in terminal:
cipeos@cipeos-HP:~$ slingshot-launcher -h
slingshot-launcher: command not found
cipeos@cipeos-HP:~$ slingshot-launcher --help
slingshot-launcher: command not found
cipeos@cipeos-HP:~$ slingshot-launcher -help
slingshot-launcher: command not found
cipeos@cipeos-HP:~$
Also:
killall slingshot-launcher
slingshot-launcher: no process found
You can search for other questions, in terms of customising the menus, I'm not sure what you need to achieve, but this is what I've found so far...
To find out about commands you can type:
man slingshot-launcher
To locate installed files you can do:
dpkg -L slingshot-launcher
You need to run commands to actually use it via wingpanel, which you can interact with on the command line. I believe the command to show it is:
wingpanel --toggle-indicator app-launcher
man page for slingshot is mostly:
OPTIONS -h, --help Show help message and exit
-v, --version
Print version info and exit
-s, --silent
Launch Slingshot as a background process without it appearing visually
-c, --command-mode
Not implemented yet
--display=DISPLAY
X display to use
wingpanel --toggle-indicator app-launcher taking other arguments that would effectively launch an application. - Is it possible? - That would solve my other problem here: Startup command to execute a desktop file and show its icon in dock I think.
chmod +x ~/.local/share/applications/<your file>.desktop have you tried this? Does it produce the icon in the dock?
Feb 13, 2017 at 13:39
If I simply execute the desktop file in the file manager, the terminal icon is shown.