Creating a desktop shortcut

John Hupp lubuntu at prpcompany.com
Wed Sep 18 21:54:21 UTC 2013


On 9/18/2013 5:24 PM, Nik Th wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: John Hupp
>>
>> Sent: 09/18/13 11:19 PM
>>
>> To: Lubuntu Users
>>
>> Subject: Creating a desktop shortcut
>>
>> I want to create a desktop shortcut for a command that I ordinarily run in an lxterm window thus:
>>
>> sudo ltsp-update-image --cleanup /
>>
>> I tried a standard desktop shortcut with the relevant line:
>>
>> Exec=sudo ltsp-update-image --cleanup /
>>
>> but running the shortcut produces no results.
>>
>> I also tried modifying that to:
>>
>> Exec=gksudo ltsp-update-image --cleanup /
>>
>> But likewise running that produces no results.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>
>> I also tried creating a bash script with the contents:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> sudo ltsp-update-image --cleanup /
>>
>> And alternatively with line 2:
>>
>> gksudo ltsp-update-image --cleanup /
>>
>> and simply also with line 2:
>>
>> ltsp-update-image --cleanup /
>>
>> Trying to run any of those versions, it prompts to Execute or to Execute in Terminal, but none of those choices runs the update program or even prompts
>> for a password.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>>
> Tell to the system that this is an application .desktop file. Take as 
> an example the contents of one file inside /usr/share/applications/ . 
> Also you have to invoke an lxterminal in order to execute the command
>
> Try this
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Type=Application
> Name=ltsp-update
> Comment=update ltsp
> Exec=lxterminal --command="sudo ltsp-update-image --cleanup /"
>
> Icon=
>
> save above contents in a .desktop file, eg: update-ltsp.desktop
>
> You can either save the file inside /usr/share/applications/ (global = 
> root privileges needed for saving) or .local/share/applications/ (only 
> for you, no root privileges needed). If the .local/share/applications/ 
> path does not exist, create it.
>
> For easy of use, you can add a path to the Icon= , of an icon either 
> .jpeg or .png . (64x64)
>
> Regards
> NikTh
>
> -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NikTh -- 

Thanks for nailing this (along with Andre Rodovalho, who pointed to the 
same solution).  The conveniently invoked update is running as we speak!
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