I'm setting up the Cairo-Dock and I wish to put the "Computer", "Home", and My External hard drive in the dock along with my applications and the Menu.
I managed to find the "Command To Launch On Click" for "Computer" and my Home folder... but I can't figure out the command for my external (which is mounted to the desktop now).
The "Computer" command is: "nautilus --no-desktop computer:"
The Home folder command is: "nautilus --no-desktop"
Wouldn't there be a similar command for the mounted external?
I would simply drag it into the Dock, but that doesn't appear to work at all.
Does anyone know what the "command to launch on click" would be?
[SOLVED] Anyone know the Launch command for...
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[SOLVED] Anyone know the Launch command for...
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Re: Anyone know the Launch command for...
Yes, just add the path to your external after --no-desktop. The finished command would look something like this:The Home folder command is: "nautilus --no-desktop"
Wouldn't there be a similar command for the mounted external?
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nautilus --no-desktop /path/to/external
Re: Anyone know the Launch command for...
i'm using the cairo-dock and showing external drives is one of the built-in options.
you can find it under Desktop>Shortcuts>Module>List Drives and Volumes
you can find it under Desktop>Shortcuts>Module>List Drives and Volumes
Re: Anyone know the Launch command for...
Hmm... Oddly enough I receive an error when I set it to:RedWagon wrote:Code: Select all
nautilus --no-desktop /path/to/external
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nautilus --no-desktop /media/My Book/
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nautilus --no-desktop /media/
I receive two errors:
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Could not Find "/home/frank/Book".
Please check the spelling and try again.
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Could not Find "/Media/My".
Please check the spelling and try again.
The Location is "/Media/My Book" (Western Digital My Book)...
Maybe it can't read the path with a space in-between "My" and "Book"?
Thanks for the answer, RedWagon.
Incidentally, you helped me resolve a separate issue
Re: Anyone know the Launch command for...
I got it!
On a whim...
I went into the properties of the drive > Volume tab > Settings and changed the mounting point of the Drive to "media/My_Book", unmounted the drive, then mounted it again (actually, I shut down... since it wouldn't let me unmount. Same thing, I guess ).
That fixed the problem.
Apparently it was having trouble with there being a space present in the path.
Again, thanks for the help.
On a whim...
I went into the properties of the drive > Volume tab > Settings and changed the mounting point of the Drive to "media/My_Book", unmounted the drive, then mounted it again (actually, I shut down... since it wouldn't let me unmount. Same thing, I guess ).
That fixed the problem.
Apparently it was having trouble with there being a space present in the path.
Again, thanks for the help.
Re: [SOLVED] Anyone know the Launch command for...
if your issue was spaces in the name, you can easily circumvent this by either double quoting:
or place a backslash before the space:
also, if these are ntfs volumes you could install ntfs-config which provides an option to easily change the mount point of a partition/device.
my apologies i didn't post this before, i overlooked this part.
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nautilus --no-desktop "/media/My Book"
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nautilus --no-desktop /media/My\ Book
my apologies i didn't post this before, i overlooked this part.
Re: [SOLVED] Anyone know the Launch command for...
I'll make a note of that for future referenceLeppie wrote:if your issue was spaces in the name, you can easily circumvent this by either double quoting:or place a backslash before the space:Code: Select all
nautilus --no-desktop "/media/My Book"
also, if these are ntfs volumes you could install ntfs-config which provides an option to easily change the mount point of a partition/device.Code: Select all
nautilus --no-desktop /media/My\ Book
my apologies i didn't post this before, i overlooked this part.
Thanks.