Neat Trick

[Bill Vance]

Well, what happens on mine is, a icon bearing my
system name comes up in the desktop window, and
when clicked on it runs dolphin with the, "/",
directory displayed in icons.  From some of the
replies, I have to say we're learning once again,
that in linux there's a zillion ways to do
anything, and not all of them work for everyone.

   :-)

Bill

On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, Nils Kassube wrote:

> Nils Kassube wrote:
>> Bill vance wrote:
>>> On 4/21/15, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>> Bill Vance wrote:
>>>>> Oops!  The wordwrapping made it a little less plain than
>>>>> intended.  Try it this way.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> cd /home/$USER/Desktop
>>>>> Name=$(cat /etc/hostname)
>>>>> ln -s / $Name
>>>>> cd -
>>>>
>>>> Or just a single command:
>>>>
>>>> ln -s / ~/Desktop/$(cat /etc/hostname)
>>>>
>>>> But what's it good for?
>>>
>>> Try it and see.  If you don't want it then, use, "rm", on it.
>>
>> Well, I don't see any change to my desktop, that's why I asked.
>
> I had to play a bit with the desktop settings (in a VM to avoid changes
> to my current setup) and finally I found it: It seems to work only if
> you have a folder widget set to show the contents of the specified
> folder "/home/$USER/Desktop". But I don't have that on my desktop and
> the live-dvd image of Kubuntu 14.04 doesn't have it either by default.
>
>
> Nils
>
>
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