Desktop icons

I love having icons on my desktop, not hunderds of icons, but having a shortcut to Trash is handy. I could not find a setting to do this and set out in search of a solution.

Thank you to Chaos from the Peppermint forum (to view the full article, go to http://peppermintos.net/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=236)

For your home folder, right click on your desktop and scroll to new/blank file and create a blank file on your desktop, open the blank file with leafpad and copy the code below,

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Home

Comment=Browser

Exec=pcmanfm

Terminal=false

X-MultipleArgs=false

Type=Application

Icon=gnome-fs-home.svg

Categories=Application;Desktop;Filemanager

StartupWMClass=Pcmanfm

StartupNotify=true

and save to desktop as home.

For root folder, similar to Windows' 'My Computer':

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Computer

Comment=Browser

Exec=pcmanfm /

Terminal=false

X-MultipleArgs=false

Type=Application

Icon=gnome-computer

Categories=Application;Desktop;Filemanager

StartupWMClass=Pcmanfm

StartupNotify=true

For network:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Network

Exec=pyNeighborhood

Terminal=false

X-MultipleArgs=false

Type=Application

Icon=network

Categories=Application;Desktop

StartupWMClass=Pcmanfm

StartupNotify=true

For Terminal:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Terminal

Exec=lxterminal

Terminal=false

X-MultipleArgs=false

Type=Application

Icon=gnome-terminal

Categories=Application;Desktop

StartupWMClass=Pcmanfm

StartupNotify=true

Trash Can:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Rubbish

Comment=Browser

Exec=pcmanfm trash:///

Terminal=false

X-MultipleArgs=false

Type=Application

Icon=gnome-stock-trash.svg

Categories=Application;Desktop;Filemanager

MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;

StartupWMClass=Pcmanfm

StartupNotify=true

I only put a shortcut to Trash on my desktop, but this is a great tutorial. A lot of things are not as "easy" to do when you come from a Windows background. I am glad that there are people out there who are willing to share their knowledge.