Questions tagged [desktop-shortcuts]
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Switching to a new default terminal breaks my desktop and panel shortcuts
I am a noobie running a Hyper-V instance of Kali Linux and have switched my default terminal editor to Ghostty. Doing so has broken the desktop and panel shortcuts I have, but only the ones that run ...
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How can I start a NPM app from a desktop shortcut?
I have created a desktop shortcut for a npm application called TMXEditor, but it doesn't work. I can launch the app if I do cd /home/souto/Apps/maxprograms/TMXEditor && npm start on a terminal....
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Where is my chrome shortcut being saved to?
I can create a shortcut in Chrome with More tools > Create shortcut. For Windows the documentation suggests that this will create some kind of file on the Desktop which users can click to open the ...
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How do I make a clickable shortcut to open a random shortcut file in a dir on Linux?
I have made a directory on my Linux Mint desktop called "Ungoogled Chromium shortcuts". It contains one .desktop file per proxy I have access to. If I open this directory and double-click ...
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How to run 2 lines in GUI command line shortcut
I've installed a new version of an app. Currently it's GUI shortcut leads to /usr/bin/flameshot But I've installed it in a different path and now I run it from the terminal like this: cd ~/...
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Terminate X11 Application with Mouse
There is a feature in X11 that temporarily transforms your mouse pointer into a "kill X11 application" icon (I don't even know what to call it) and allows you to forcibly terminate a process ...
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xdg-open opens my .desktop file in text viewer or editor instead of launching the executable I want
I tried to create a .desktop file to launch xfreerdp with certain command-line arguments, using https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_entries as a quick reference. Its file name is something....
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Kali Linux Gnome desktop shorcut
I am wondering how can I create a program ( e.g. VS Code) desktop shortcut on Kal Linux Gnome interface. So that I click the desktop shortcut and the program runs. Unfortunately, I cannot find this ...
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