soft link

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 03:04:22 -0700 (PDT), Bill Vance wrote:
>Or from the terminal, you can try:
>
>    cd ~/Desktop
>    ln -s /your/target/directory YourLinkName

IIUC the OP knows how to create a link, but not how to enable to view
Icons on the Desktop. I'm not using KDE anymore, so I can't help.

>The following works for me, but doesn't work on all
>distros.  My systems name is xpresso, so doing this:
>
>    cd ~/Desktop
>    ln -s / xpresso

If it shouldn't work for a Distro, then something is broken.