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
