Thread: Shortcuts to files / folders on the desktop?
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outdoors is offline outdoors
2010-09-28 , 19:17
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Originally Posted by AlMehdi View Post
That can happen if you have forgotten to complete the string. Like a forgotten citation mark.

What happens if you do:

Code:
`openfile '/home/user/MyDocs/.images/Sketch/Face.jpg'`
You were spot on. I forgott the ' at the end.
Now it does open the pic from xterm.

But the problem of the actual .desktop shortcut still exist.
It does not show up in the list of desktop shortcuts or widgets.
(even tried rebooting)

My file is named img.desktop (no other extension like .txt)
It is placed at: usr/share/applications/hildon

This is its content:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=0.13
Type=Application
Name=Image
Exec=openfile '/home/user/MyDocs/.images/Sketch/Face.jpg'
Icon=general_image