about symbolic links on Desktop

[Mike Massonnet]

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:09:53 -0400 - Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com>
wrote :

> Mike Massonnet 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.
> 
> 	I'm curious, what are you sending to another desktop by
> clicking on the desktop?  If you want to send a particular window to
> another desktop you can either right click on the title bar or left
> click on the  [-] window widget thingy.  The "Send to..." selection
> there will let you send the window to any desktop/workplace you want.
> 
> Joe

Misstake!  The "Send to" is the action to send a file from Thunar to
~/Desktop (the desktop).  OK, actually there were more than one
question in 3), but I answered this part:
> >>desktop. Also, something like "Send to desktop..." as
> >>in Windows would be very nice and convenient. Now

Cheers ;)
Mike.
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