Re: How to do Commandline 'Shortcuts' (was: Re: How to put an shortcut icon on the GNOME desktop for directory listing?)

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Sidney Lambe wrote:

David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:37:20 -0500, Matthew Lincoln <kmlincoln100@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I want to put somehow a shortcut icon on the GNOME desktop.
When I (double)click on this shortcut icon the file explorer should be opened directly
in a certain directory (e.g. /usr/local/home/blah).

Right click on a blank area of the desktop. Select "Create Launcher...".
Put whatever you want for the name. In the Command box put
"nautilus /usr/local/home/blah" (without the quotes). Optionally click
on the icon, to select a different one. Click Ok.

Regards, Dave Hodgins


Using the commandline, you'd just put something like this in your
systemwide bash configuration file in /etc:

Come on, if you have to use a GUI for whatever reasons, you might
as well set it up to match your desires.

One of a handful of reasons that I use a GUI is to run a graphic browser.
I never did that until I started using Linux in mid-2001. It's silly to
start up xterm so I can type in a substitute name for the browser, when
I can make sure the browser I desire is on the task bar. Might as well
put lynx there, and pine too, since I use both of those far more than
any GUI based program. I may need access to my bookmarks, that are indeed far more built up with lynx than Netscape or whatever it calls itself
these days.

If I didn't do this, I have no reason to rename applications I use
frequently, after all, I've just typed them in from the console for
seven and a half years already, and even before that since for a long
time I was using a terminal emulator to dial into my ISP that had a unix
shell.

If you have to complicate to simplify, you might as well just do the
existing simplification, which of course means putting the icons of
your most commonly used programs on the desktop somewhere/somehow.

Michael
.

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