Create launchers in any location in Mint Mate 17

[stevecook172001]

As you may already know, if you are on the dekstop in Mint with the Mate desktop, you can right click and one of the menu options is to create a launcher. This option, however, is not available when you are in a folder in your home directory or in a folder you may have created on the desktop. In other words, the option is only available for the desktop itself. The following tutorial shows how you can add a right click menu item that will allow you to create a laucher anywhere in your home location as well as on the Desktop or inside a folder on the desktop.

1) Open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel

Close the terminal once installation has completed.

2) Open up a text editor and paste the following into it:

gnome-desktop-item-edit ./ --create-new

Save the file as "create-launcher-in-this-location.sh" (or any other name you wish. Just make sure to end it with ".sh")

3) Open a terminal and go to the directory where you have saved the file.

Type:

sudo chmod +x create-launcher-in-this-location.sh

This makes the file executable

Close the terminal

4) Navigate via the file manager to where you saved your file and right click it and choose "copy". After you have done this navigate to your home folder (if you are not already in it) and press CTRL-H. This will display all of the hidden folders. Navigate to "/home/user/.config/caja/scripts" (where "user" is your username). Once inside this folder, right click and choose "paste". The "create-launcher-in-this-location.sh" file will now appear in this location. Close the file manager.

5) From now on, wherever you are in your home folder or on the desktop, if you right click you will see a new option called "scripts". Inside that option is your "create-launcher-in-this-location.sh" file. If you choose it, a standard launcher dialog box will apear and you can proceeed to create the launcher. The launcher will subsequently appear inside your currently active location/folder. You can even use this script on your desktop instead of the standard option in the right click menu that already exists