[mythtv-users] How do I create desktop icon shortcuts?

[Allen Edwards]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Allen Edwards wrote:
>
>> Solved.
>>
>> To get the Ubuntu desktop you have to do more than install
>> Ubuntu-desktop in myth control panel.  You do that then shutdown,
>> logout, then login again and select session gnome.  Then you can drag
>> and drop applications to the desktop.  If there is a way to do this
>> with the standard Mythbuntu desktop, I couldn't find it and nobody
>> chimed in to help so this will have to do.
>
> The standard Mythbuntu desktop is xfce (http://www.xfce.org/). You'll
> have to read the documentation on xfce to figure out how to add icons
> to the desktop. I don't even know if it's possible since I've never
> used xfce before.
>
> -Brad
>
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I could not find anything in the xfce documentation about desktop
icons but if you place an icon on the desktop with genome, it will be
there if you go back to xfce.  Probably everyone knows this but me but
the icons are files in the desktop directory so if you get the file
there, it is there...

Allen