[ubuntu-uk] make link to url on ubuntu desktop?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 2/3/07, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
> make link to url on ubuntu desktop?

I may be missing something obvious, but to create a link to a url on
my desktop, I just click on the little fav icon at the beginning of
the url in Firefox's address bar (for example, the little envelope in
front of https://mail.google.com/mail/) and drag and drop it onto my
desktop.

If you're trying to do that from a shell script or something, the
*.desktop file that's created looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=link to Google Mail - [ubuntu-uk] make link to url on ubuntu desktop?
Type=Link
URL=https://mail.google.com/mail/
Icon=gnome-fs-bookmark
GenericName[en_US]=


-Eamonn