Add/Remove

many programs are console based. If you install a program successfully using the add/remove applet and cant find in in your menus try opening a terminal and starting the program there. In fact some gui based programs install their menu shortcuts and configure the program on the first run. For example if you installed Conky you would open a terminal and type: conky

hope this helps and that you enjoy your experience with Ubuntu. Welcome and enjoy the ride :)

Hello

+1 old_soldier, For some applications installed you will not have a menu entry.. In that case you have to use the command line for such applications to run.. (run the command in a terminal (applications > accessories > terminal)

Example:

If you would have installed astrolog

To run astrolog you would give the following command in a terminal:

astrolog

Next is adding icons to applications:

Basically there are two sides to this:
  - application icons come with an application, the easiest way to change them would be to edit their launcher.
  - icons used by applications come with icon packs

**** CHANGING ICONS OF APPLICATIONS IN THE MENU ****

  1. right-click on the menu .. choose edit-menus
  2. choose an application
  3. right-click, choose properties from the menu
  4. this will open a window with properties about the menu-option
  5. click on the icon in this window
  6. select a different icon

**** CHANGING ICONS OF LAUNCHERS ****

  1. right-click on a launcher in your panel (like firefox)
  2. choose properties
  3. click on the icon
  4. select a different icon

***** ABOUT ICON PACKS *****

The icons of an icon pack are stored in two different places:
  - icon-packs installed for all users are found /usr/share/icons
  - icon-packs installed for only you are found ~/.icons

You cannot change the files in /usr/share/icons unless you are in root-mode.

**** USING A DOWNLOADED ICON ****

  1. open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal)
  2. type: gksu nautilus
  3. type your password
  4. now a file browser window will popup where you are in root-mode
  5. be careful about what you do to your files now
  6. go to /usr/share/icons
  7. find your icons .. they often have them in several sizes
  8. copy your icon over the original one
  9. make sure they are the same size (each size is in its own directory)

Hope the info helps

Bhavani Shankar