create desktop shortcuts of my mounted partitions ?

[sshe11]

Hey guys,

I have 2 mounted partitions in /mnt/windows_share and /mnt/everything_else ..... is there a way to add shortcuts to these directories on my desktop ???

They get mounted at startup so it'd be coool to have icons for these directories sitting on my desktop :D ....

thanks

[Pafnoutios]

If you're running KDE, I know there's a configuration panel where you can select device icons for your desktop. You can select to put shortcuts to all mounted harddrives on your desktop. Also, the command 'konqueror /usr/local' will open up konqueror to that directory. I expect it would probably work that way on any linux GUI file manager. You could make a desktop shortcut to execute that command and it should have the same effect.

[clteh0504]

Hope this help

Right click on your desktop > Create Launcher, under command type the path of your mounted partition, /mnt/windows for instance, then click ok... it should be alright to do it this way

[sshe11]

I am using the Bluecurve theme for Fedora core 3 ... I tried drag and drop but I think that just made a copy of the folder ....

[retsaw]

This should workln -s /mnt/windows_share ~/Desktop/windows_share
ln -s /mnt/everything_else ~/Desktop/everything_elseThere's probably an easy GUI way to do it too, but I don't use DE's with a desktop like KDE and Gnome ;)

[sshe11]

Just one more question !

[sshe11]

Can someone tell me how to create a shortcut for a script ??

I have a script in /home/start_net ... I run it by ./start_net .... how can I add a link to the start_net script on my desktop ??

[soulestream]

as long as the script is executable just make a laucher on the desktop and put in the path for execute. /home/user/script.sh


soule