[SOLVED] How To make custom links?
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[SOLVED] How To make custom links?
How do I make my own links to directories, that I can name it what I want and choose where the link points?
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Re: How To make custom links?
Right click on the directory and select "Make Link". Right click the link and rename it. Move the link to wherever you want it.
Re: How To make custom links?
The above may work, depending on your file manager. Using
ln
from command line works always.Master Foo Discourses on GUI.
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Re: How To make custom links?
Easier: press Ctrl+Shift and drag the target file or directory off to a side or into another window and release. That will create a shortcut...link (darned Windows is still in my head!). You can then rename it.
Re: How To make custom links?
I use Mate. I can put "Computer" on my Desktop by going into Control Center, selecting Desktop Settings, and selecting Computer.
Re: How To make custom links?
Hint: you can wait until someone searches the net for you (slow) > Linky <
... or you can read the man page and search the net all by yourself (much faster).
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Re: How To make custom links?
Yeah, yeah, okay!
I did look up ln in Bash (-help and the man command)...uh...no, that's simply not going to get past the first brain cell (of the two I have) in my head. And running around Google, trying to figure stuff like this out is so darned difficult half the time. (Sure, it gets easier, perhaps, once you have a clue, but until then it's a living nightmare half the time.)
For some of us non-technical types, the amount of reading and processing for finding Linux-related information is so far more time consuming than to just see it in action. Okay, sure, that means it might take a few minutes for someone to give an example (like the one I asked for here), but that simple example, with a quick blurb about what it does is gold as a starting point for future searching and reading; show me see an example of how to use ln to, say, create a link on the Desktop of a file or directory, and I can go from there. Tell me to search myself and figure out, I could be spending a long time trying to do that.
Case in point. For ln or link, tell me to go read this this as a starting point and I'm going to be there a while. Give me an example first of what's going on when you create a link in the terminal, and I can then put two and two together a bit quicker when I go to that document.
This idea that the more information available, the easier it is. Nope! Doesn't work that way (well, for some maybe). There's just way too much information out there to wade through, and so much of it is written in shop talk instead of simple layman's terms. All more information means (at least until you're familiar with the subject), is more time, effort and work just to find the information, decipher it and then digest it. Googling is NOT the beginning, human interaction is. Yes, it might mean a bit more time from, say, AscLinux, to give a quick demo, but that effort can make it so much easier for future study for a lot of people who read the post.
I did look up ln in Bash (-help and the man command)...uh...no, that's simply not going to get past the first brain cell (of the two I have) in my head. And running around Google, trying to figure stuff like this out is so darned difficult half the time. (Sure, it gets easier, perhaps, once you have a clue, but until then it's a living nightmare half the time.)
For some of us non-technical types, the amount of reading and processing for finding Linux-related information is so far more time consuming than to just see it in action. Okay, sure, that means it might take a few minutes for someone to give an example (like the one I asked for here), but that simple example, with a quick blurb about what it does is gold as a starting point for future searching and reading; show me see an example of how to use ln to, say, create a link on the Desktop of a file or directory, and I can go from there. Tell me to search myself and figure out, I could be spending a long time trying to do that.
Case in point. For ln or link, tell me to go read this this as a starting point and I'm going to be there a while. Give me an example first of what's going on when you create a link in the terminal, and I can then put two and two together a bit quicker when I go to that document.
This idea that the more information available, the easier it is. Nope! Doesn't work that way (well, for some maybe). There's just way too much information out there to wade through, and so much of it is written in shop talk instead of simple layman's terms. All more information means (at least until you're familiar with the subject), is more time, effort and work just to find the information, decipher it and then digest it. Googling is NOT the beginning, human interaction is. Yes, it might mean a bit more time from, say, AscLinux, to give a quick demo, but that effort can make it so much easier for future study for a lot of people who read the post.
Re: How To make custom links?
You do this:
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ln -s real-file fake-file
"fake-file" is the link.
Fer example ..."wine" by default looks for its stuff in $HOME/.wine, but I don't want a bunch of files in my $HOME, so I put the actual wine data on another partition and make a link to it:
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ln -s /mnt/DATA/wine32 $HOME/.wine
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.wine -> /mnt/DATA/wine32
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$ ls /mnt/DATA/wine32
dosdevices drive_c system.reg user.reg userdef.reg winetricks.log
$ ls $HOME/.wine
dosdevices drive_c system.reg user.reg userdef.reg winetricks.log
"man" (or --help) documentation is usually complete but poorly written and lacks useful examples, e.g. "ln" documentation has no examples at all.For some of us non-technical types, the amount of reading and processing for finding Linux-related information is so far more time consuming than to just see it in action.
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Re: How To make custom links?
Goodness, Flemur, that was much more than I would have hoped for!
I get it. So Wine thinks it's where it's supposed to be but it's really on another partition.
I went ahead and tried creating a link in my own personal file in /home, and it worked. I see that now.
Thanks.
So TAKE THAT, askLinux! (kidding ya)
I get it. So Wine thinks it's where it's supposed to be but it's really on another partition.
I went ahead and tried creating a link in my own personal file in /home, and it worked. I see that now.
Thanks.
So TAKE THAT, askLinux! (kidding ya)
Re: How To make custom links?
And I tried it, But it did the "Creating link" thingy and it never finished it.
I am trying to make a custom link to my computer on my desktop.
I am trying to make a custom link to my computer on my desktop.
Re: How To make custom links?
Well, once the main Computer icon is on the Desktop, I just click it to activate it, then I press Ctrl+Shift and then, while holding it, click and drag that icon somewhere else on my Desktop; it may say "Link to..." But I just rename it. Otherwise, I don't know.
Re: How To make custom links?
BTW, I use Linux mint 18.3 Cinnamon 32-bit. but I haven't yet had any luck.
Isn't there like some sort of 'link file' That I can make, that just requires some line of code?
I just want to change the name of my shortcut.
Isn't there like some sort of 'link file' That I can make, that just requires some line of code?
I just want to change the name of my shortcut.
Re: How To make custom links?
I have aliases written into my .cshrc file (note I'm using C-shell) that I use to open directories from Terminal. You could do that or write a shell script.T_Characht3r wrote: ⤴Sun Apr 07, 2019 2:15 am BTW, I use Linux mint 18.3 Cinnamon 32-bit. but I haven't yet had any luck.
Isn't there like some sort of 'link file' That I can make, that just requires some line of code?
I just want to change the name of my shortcut.
Re: How To make custom links?
Syminks are basically file pointers. You want to be judicious with them or you could turn your directory tree into spaghetti.
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Re: How To make custom links?
ok. i kinda give up for now xD
oh well, thanks anyways.
oh well, thanks anyways.