home directory shortcut

[Ulin the Tech Mage]

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 12:48 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Pastor JW
> <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 12 September 2008 06:13:05 am Karl Auer wrote:
> >>
> >> HOWEVER: You have reminded me of an even simpler way to achieve what the
> >> OP wanted: Just drag and drop the "Home Folder" entry out of the
> >> "Places" list onto the desktop. You will end up with exactly what I
> >> described in the previous paragraph and an earlier message.
> >
> > Once a person does that, how would one put it back away???
> 
> I tried dragging "Home Folder" from the Places menu in the panel and
> it looked as if it were going to make a copy of my home folder - at
> which point I canceled.  I don't have enough disk space to try that ;)
> 
> If you create a launcher - or if the above drag-and-drop procedure
> does create a launcher - you can just delete it.
> 
> I disable all of my Desktop icons and use the Places menu in
> conjunction with the Places sidebar in nautilus, but to each their
> own...
> 
> Chris
> 

try creating a custom launcher on your panel, and ser it to a
application in the command put
"nautilus //home/username"
**where username is your user/login name***