Putting website shortcuts on the desktop in Lubuntu 14.04 LTS

[Pierre Gobin]

Hi,

It can be done with a custom .desktop file.

To do it easily with the GUI :

  * Go in Lubuntu Menu, right click on Firefox (or an other web
    browser), and click on « Create a shortcut on the desktop » ;

  * Right click on your new shortcut, and choose « Shortcut Editor » (I
    am not sure of the English name) ;

  * In the dialog, go in the "Desktop Entry" tab, and modify the
    command. For Firefox, I have « firefox %u » : you can modify it by «
    firefox %u "http://www.yourwebsite.com" ».


In this dialog, you can also modify the icon, label, etc.

I hope it can help,

Kind regards,
Pierre Gobin

Le 30/09/2014 15:10, Marc Tremblay a écrit :
>
> Good morning,
>
> I work for a school board in Montreal and we are finally shifting over 
> to open source software for our older computer labs using  Lubuntu 
> 14.04 instead of windows 7. The performance between the two is 
> incomparable and schools are saving up to 15 000$ by converting to 
> Lubuntu instead of purchasing new hardware.
>
> Our teachers have been working with us on this and one *big request* 
> is to put shortcut to web sites on the desktop. I thought this would 
> be a simple request but I am unable to find any information on how to 
> do this. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks
>
> Marc Tremblay
>
> Educational Services Dept
>
> Lester B. Pearson School Board
>
> 1925 Brookdale
>
> Dorval, H9P 2Y7
>
> mtremblay at lbpsb.qc.ca <mailto:mtremblay at lbpsb.qc.ca>
>
>
>

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