On Tue, 20 May 2014 21:22:25 +0200 meine <[email protected]> said: maybe you should have either just made a symlink - it'd work.... or look at the root or tmp desktop files already provided for you in ~/Desktop when E sets up for your user. :)
> maybe this is stuff that you already know, maybe you are new and wanted to > know but were afraid to ask... > > on the Enlightenment desktop there are several shortcuts to your home > directory, root and plugged in USB devices. you can also copy documents to > the desktop by dragging them to the Desktop directory in the home folder. > > but what when you want a shortcut to another permanently mounted partition on > your hard disk drive? > > a link to a file or directory on the desktop is a special '.desktop' [dot] > file with application like features. it triggers a program to react and > behave like specified. making such a link I found not documented for > Enlightenment, but the LXDE way works well! > > to create a shortcut to a different volume -- usually mounted > in /media/<partition_name>, you need to manually create a .desktop file in > the ~/Desktop folder: > > [user@localhost ~]$ cat ~/Desktop/<preferred_shortcut_name>.desktop > > open this file with a text editor and enter all lines below where you fill in > the parts between < >: > > [Desktop Entry] > Encoding=UTF-8 > Type=Application > Icon=system-file-manager > Name=<preferred_shortcut_name> > Exec=enlightenment_filemanager /media/<name_of_different_mountvolume> > > the string is asking the Enlightenment file manager to open the given folder. > stay with the default application icon or choose one different. > > then set the file proprties in the file manager by right-clicking the > made .desktop file and choose settings/properties: > > user: read, write, execute > group: read, execute > others: read, execute > > Once saved you can only change this file by temporarily unchecking the > execute properties. Don't forget to put these back to have your desktop > shortcut in working order back again. > > -- > //meine > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE > Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. > Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available > Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." > http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
