Installing a Maple Icon and Menu Item

Maple Icon

You can arrange to have a Maple icon appear on menu above the text editor icon on the Front Panel. Clicking on this icon will then create a Maple window.

Also, you can arrange so that double clicking on a Maple worksheet (a *.mws file) in a file manager window will create a Maple window running the worksheet.

Danger: If you have already made personal customizations to your window manager, do not use the following commands, since they might destroy your customizations.

To do this, issue the following commands in a terminal window:

Hint: The easiest was to make sure that the commands are typed correctly is to copy each command from the Netscape window and paste it into the terminal window.

Maple Menu Item

You can modify the Workspace Menu (which displays when you click the right mouse button with the pointer in the workspace background) to contain a Maple item within the Programs submenu.

Danger: If you have already made personal customizations to your window manager, do not use the following commands, since they might destroy your customizations.

To do this, issue the following commands in a terminal window:

Important

After you issue the commands above, you should log out and log back in so that the changes take effect.