Putting website shortcuts on the desktop in Lubuntu 14.04 LTS

[Israel]

Hi,
You can also simplify this
As, Pierre said, you can make the simple desktop file.
The command can be:

 firefox yourwebsite.com

But, if you want to do it manually, this line in the desktop file is
Name=Firefox
Exec=firefox %u

And if you want to write a script...
the script to do this would be :

#!/bin/bash
WEBSITE=torios.org
NAME="ToriOS"
ICON=www-browser
echo -e "[Desktop Entry]\n
Encoding=UTF-8\n
Exec=firefox ${WEBSITE}\n
Icon=${ICON}\n
Terminal=false\n
Type=Application\n
Categories=Network;\n
Name=${NAME}\n" >> ~/Desktop/$NAME.desktop
chmod a+rx ~/Desktop/$NAME.desktop

so if you save it as mysite.bash (make it executable)
and then
./mysite.bash

I really have been enjoying bash, so you don't have to do it this way, I
just like the terminal.
It is easy to do through the GUI anyhow :)


On 09/30/2014 08:38 AM, Pierre Gobin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It can be done with a custom .desktop file.
>
> To do it easily with the GUI :

>   * Go in Lubuntu Menu, right click on Firefox (or an other web
>     browser), and click on « Create a shortcut on the desktop » ;
>
>   * Right click on your new shortcut, and choose « Shortcut Editor »
>     (I am not sure of the English name) ;
>
>   * In the dialog, go in the "Desktop Entry" tab, and modify the
>     command. For Firefox, I have « firefox %u » : you can modify it by
>     « firefox %u "http://www.yourwebsite.com" ».
>
>
> In this dialog, you can also modify the icon, label, etc.
>
> I hope it can help,
>
> Kind regards,
> Pierre Gobin
>
> Le 30/09/2014 15:10, Marc Tremblay a écrit :
>>
>> Good morning,
>>
>>  
>>
>> I work for a school board in Montreal and we are finally shifting
>> over to open source software for our older computer labs using 
>> Lubuntu 14.04 instead of windows 7. The performance between the two
>> is incomparable and schools are saving up to 15 000$ by converting to
>> Lubuntu instead of purchasing new hardware.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Our teachers have been working with us on this and one *big request*
>> is to put shortcut to web sites on the desktop. I thought this would
>> be a simple request but I am unable to find any information on how to
>> do this. Can anyone help?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>  
>>
>> Marc Tremblay
>>
>> Educational Services Dept
>>
>> Lester B. Pearson School Board
>>
>> 1925 Brookdale
>>
>> Dorval, H9P 2Y7
>>
>>  
>>
>> mtremblay at lbpsb.qc.ca <mailto:mtremblay at lbpsb.qc.ca>
>>
>>  
>>
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>


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Regards

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