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# Desktop icon

These instructions will help you make a KDE desktop icon which starts the Sage notebook. Instructions for a Gnome desktop icon are probably similar.

1. Create a `notebook.sage` file containing only the line

       notebook(openviewer=True)

2. In your Desktop subdirectory, create a file `Sage-notebook.desktop` containing the lines

       [Desktop Entry]
       Comment=
       Comment[de]=
       Encoding=UTF-8
       Exec=/usr/local/bin/sage /home/martin/notebook.sage
       GenericName=
       GenericName[de]=
       Icon=
       MimeType=
       Name=Sage
       Name[de]=Sage
       Path=$HOME
       StartupNotify=true
       Terminal=false
       TerminalOptions=
       Type=Application
       X-DCOP-ServiceType=
       X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
       X-KDE-Username=

   You will have to edit the `Exec=` line to point to your `sage` script and your `notebook.sage` file.

3. Right click on the Sage notebook desktop icon and click on `Properties`, then `Application`, then `Advanced Options`, then `Run in Terminal`. If you want to title the xwindow terminal, add in the terminal option box `-T "sage notebook"`.

To quit the Sage notebook, first enter `Ctrl-c` in the xwindow terminal running Sage, then enter `Ctrl-d` to quit Sage in the terminal, and finally close the browser (or browser tab) which was displaying the Sage notebook server.

For a picture for your icon, check out the Sage art at http://wiki.sagemath.org/art.

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