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[Solved] Creating Symbolic Links (?)
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:11 pm
by M_Mynaardt
Hi!
Can anyone tell me how one can [easily] make symbolic or soft [folder] links in LXDE? I like using them, a lot. I have a persistent USB install of Mint 9 LXDE, but I've not been able to figure out how to create symbolic links of some folders (notably some of my Dropbox folders) to put on the desktop.
Thanks...
Re: Creating Symbolic Links (?)
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:29 pm
by lyovushka
Have a look at this
http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1923
It isn't exactly symbolic link, but I guess it does what you want.
Re: Creating Symbolic Links (?)
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:51 pm
by M_Mynaardt
Hi!
I'll check it out and see what happens...
Thanks...
Re: Creating Symbolic Links (?)
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:59 pm
by M_Mynaardt
I finally got this one with Symbolic Links sorted out! Someone who wasn't an LXDE user gave me the answer.
Just use the terminal command
ln like so:
ln -s /home/buddy/Pictures/holidays /home/buddy/Desktop
This will create a symbolic link folder on the desktop called, not too surprisingly, '
holidays'. You can then use
that as a short-cut to
/home/buddy/Pictures/holidays, and you can change its name on the Desktop and all that fun stuff.
For anyone else who wants this as a future reference the format of this command is:
ln -s [source-directory] [target-folder]
Where
-s is the option for 'symbolic link',
[source-directory] is the folder you want to make a short-cut to and
[target-folder] is the folder you want the symbolic link in (probably the Desktop, more often than not).
That was a simpler solution than I thought it would be! And I like it!
