Hi Folks,
On my (debian Etch) Gnome desktop there are some icons, one of which is named "ted's Home". When I double-click on this, up comes a window which displays the contents of /home/ted
So far so good ...
One of the directories in /home/ted is Downloads, i.e.
/home/ted/Downloads
I want to put an icon on the desktop such that double clicking on this will open /home/ted/Downloads and display its contents (rather than having to double click on "ted's Home" and then double click on "Downloads").
I can NOT suss out how to do this!!!
Help please! With thanks, Ted.
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:00:44 +0100 (BST) (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk allegedly wrote:
Ted
Open the home directory, right click on "Dwnloads" and select "Make Link". Now move the link to the desktop (left click on "Link to Downloads" and move it).
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On 17-Sep-08 19:13:04, mbm wrote:
Thanks, that worked! (I had previously tried dragging "Downloads" onto the actual desktop, i.e. the screen background, without success). It comes up with a "stick-on" arrow, indicating of course that it's a link (presumably a sym-link?)
I'm a bit puzzled by all this, though. The other icons on the desktop don't seem to be sym-links -- they seem to be directly linked to the files/directories (or to the method to open them), and I had been hoping to emulate how that was done.
Thanks again. Ted.
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