about symbolic links on Desktop

[nusret]

--- Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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


Comme on, I didn't say you can't use it on xfdesktop
:). I said that if you right-click on the created link
on xfdesktop and choose "Properties", xfdesktop
crashes. otherwise it works fine. But if you create a
"launcher" instead, you can edit its properties. At
the time, I was hopelessly right-clicking on the
xfdesktop to get a create ... option. Unfortunately,
to get that option, you need to click on an already
existing *item* on xfdesktop :). I noticed that later.
No offense, but I still find this illogical :/.

Mike's tip is useful to sum up :).

Regards,

Nusret

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