about symbolic links on Desktop

nusret nbalci_l at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 1 16:42:05 CEST 2006



--- Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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


Very many thanks: great feature! Worked like a charm. 

Regards,
Nusret




 
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