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# Adding application icons to the desktop
  
Fatdog 800 features a clean desktop - that is, a desktop which contains only a minimal set of icons.

There are no more application icons on the desktop by default (this contrasts with some earlier Fatdogs and Puppies where the original desktop contains application icons for text editing, drawing, wordprocessing, spreadsheet, etc).

The applications themselves still exist; they are accessible from the menu.

If this does not cater to your style, then it is easy to re-create the application icons on the desktop.

There are two ways to do it:

## 1) From the "Fatdog" menu.

Open the Fatdog Menu as usual, click and drag the application from the menu entry that you like to the desktop, release the mouse button, and voila!

You've got yourself an icon.

You may need to right-click that icon and choose "Edit item" to change the name of applications, etc. as needed (primarily to remove the ".desktop" as part of the name).

Doing this will not remove the entry from the "Fatdog" menu.

**Note:** Method 1) can only be used with lxqt-panel (the default panel in Fatdog 800) or another EWMH compliant panel. The panel provided by "jwm" is **not** compliant and you cannot use this method with it.

## 2) From the "/usr/share/applications" folder.

Open ROX-Filer, and point it to "/usr/share/applications".

This is the folder that contains most of application entries.

Drag and drop one of these to the desktop, and an application icon will be created on the desktop.

As above, you may need to "Edit item" to modify the display.

**Note:** Since Fatdog64-701 the Find'N'Run script is included, accessible by the Alt-F3 hotkey. Use it to find any application (that has a .desktop file) without the need for searching inside submenus.
