soft link

[Joshua Robinson]

Howdy,

Thanks. I have Kubuntu 12.04 and it doesn't work on my laptop (did
shut-down, waited ,  restart) - no icons.

Cheers,
-Joshua Robinson
"Live long and prosper"

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Bill Vance <kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org>
wrote:

>
>
> It depends in part on which distro you're running, (which
> you didn't mention).  On 12.04, you can do it by right
> clicking in the desktop directory window, (on your desktop),
> and going through the menuing.
>
> Or from the terminal, you can try:
>
>    cd ~/Desktop
>    ln -s /your/target/directory YourLinkName
>
> The following works for me, but doesn't work on all
> distros.  My systems name is xpresso, so doing this:
>
>    cd ~/Desktop
>    ln -s / xpresso
>
> Puts an icon named xpresso in the Desktop directory
> window.  Left clicking on it calls up Dolphin, with icons
> showing for all the sub directories in the / directory.
> Again, that doesn't work on all distros, but it's something
> you might try.
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Joshua Robinson wrote:
>
>  Howdy,
>>
>> I'm trying to add soft links to desktop, but I don't see
>> anything. How do I add soft links, directories and items ?
>>
>> If I open file manager it show in desktop folder, but not on
>> screen.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Joshua Robinson
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>> prosper"
>>
>>
>>
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