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One would think the creation of icons on a desktop would be a simple matter of dragging and dropping or have the icon created upon installation of a program. That's all fine and good but what about a program that was installed during the operating system installation (remember, Linuxinstalls thousands of applications at install)? I have many applications that I use on a daily basis that are installed by default but have no desktop icon. Instead of having to scour the menu hierarchy I would much rather click an icon and have that program launch.
One such program that I use on a daily (almost hourly) basis is a terminal. But for some reason the creators of the major Linux desktops do not, by default, have a desktop icon or task bar launcher set up for a terminal. Why this is I will never know. But never fear; we can set those up fairly quickly in both KDE and GNOME.
KDE
Let's start with a clean desktop. This screenshot shows the default KDE (version 3.5.8) desktop. There's nothing there.
How do I... Create desktop icons in KDE and GNOME?
by Jack Wallen | January 17, 2008, 12:25pm PST | Image 1 of 13
Average users might not have the slightest idea where to begin here
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ahh, see that's why
command line is best, bash don't let any cats interfere. 
I don't actually put any application icons on the desktop, since I don't automatically boot into a gui.
for the gui based apps I use, the most frequently used list in the Kmenu is sufficient.
or the mouse click menu navigation of enlightenment, with the menu layout to fit my specific preferences.
I don't actually put any application icons on the desktop, since I don't automatically boot into a gui.
for the gui based apps I use, the most frequently used list in the Kmenu is sufficient.
or the mouse click menu navigation of enlightenment, with the menu layout to fit my specific preferences.
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view as web page... ;)
I don't like having things open on the desktop with just one click. Just a preference of mine, but it does remind me of "active desktop" and all the mayhem that caused over the years.
...thank you very much, Bill Gates. "Active desktop" kept food on the table for a long while.
But if I had 'one click' set on the desktop, the cats would have that much more real estate to cause their inevitable mayhem.
Bad enough I find 266 running instances of "find file" from time to time, or icons get renamed with hundreds of characters... but if they could open some of the heavy apps I have linked on the desktop, I'd fear for the intgrity of my file system.
cat
...thank you very much, Bill Gates. "Active desktop" kept food on the table for a long while.
But if I had 'one click' set on the desktop, the cats would have that much more real estate to cause their inevitable mayhem.
Bad enough I find 266 running instances of "find file" from time to time, or icons get renamed with hundreds of characters... but if they could open some of the heavy apps I have linked on the desktop, I'd fear for the intgrity of my file system.
cat
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