Saturday 21 January 2012

Desktop Shortcuts

Just like Windows OS in Ubuntu Linux we can also create shortcut  of our applications  in Ubuntu Linux this method is a bit different .

    How to add shortcut to Ubuntu workspace(Desktop)
  1. Right click on Desktop >Create Launcher 

  2. Now select type as Application ,Name is the name of your shortcut and then
    click on Browse to browse Your application.
3. Remember that as in windows all of our application when installed  where kept  in C:/Program Files  but in ubuntu installed application where kept in usr/bin.



4. Now click on files system (Drive where Ubuntu is installed) >usr>bin
5. Now select your application to add shortcut to desktop


6. when select your application  click on open .


7. Notice in this pic i select Filzila  and  command line for shortcut is /usr/bin/filezilla . and then click on Ok

8. Finaly  we have filezila shortcut on desktop.