about symbolic links on Desktop

[Mike Massonnet]

Thu, 1 Jun 2006 01:45:44 -0700 (PDT) - nusret <nbalci_l at yahoo.com>
wrote :

> 3) When I right-click on the desktop, I don't get an
> option to create an icon on the desktop. I get this
> option when i right click on an already existing
> launcher! I really don't like the design of the
> context  menu that you get when right-click on the
> desktop. Also, something like "Send to desktop..." as
> in Windows would be very nice and convenient. Now
> question: Is it possible to customize the right-click
> menu of the XFCE shell? If yes, how?

You can do it by creating an action[1] where the command is:
ln -s %f ~/Desktop/

Name the action "Send to desktop...", check all in the condition tab
and you will be done.

Cheers,
Mike.

[1] http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/documentation/custom_actions

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