Originally Posted by thedead1440

example you want to copy xyz.desktop to ~/MyDocs you do in terminal:

Code:

devel-su
{enter your password}
cp -R /path/to/xyz.desktop /home/user/MyDocs/

edit it then to copy it back again in terminal:

Code:

devel-su
{enter your password}
cp -R /home/user/MyDocs/xyz.desktop /destination/