about symbolic links on Desktop

[Andrew Conkling]

On 6/1/06, 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.

Hey Joe (damn, now I have Jimi stuck in my head),
I think Nusret meant that to be #4, e.g. sending something from his ~
to his Desktop.  I can see that being useful, plus he said Mike's
Thunar tip was helpful, but you couldn't use those on xfdesktop. :P