home directory shortcut

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 10:33 -0700, Pastor JW 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???  

Right click on the icon. Select "Delete". It deletes the object from the
desktop, not the directory it points to. If you are like me, you will
carefully test that last statement :-)

The technique above for putting it on the desktop only works for an item
in your "Places" list. I suppose you could go the long way around and
create a bookmark, then drag it out of the "Places" list to the desktop.

The more general technique (creating a launcher) works with any
directory, anywhere, in any UI that has launchers or their equivalent -
i.e., not just Gnome, not just nautilus.

Regards, K.


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