xdg-desktop-icon command_examples

xdg-desktop-icon – command line tool for (un)installing icons to the desktop

The company ShinyThings Inc. has developed an application named “WebMirror” and would like to add a launcher for for on the desktop. The company will use “shinythings” as its vendor id. In order to add the application to the desktop there needs to be a .desktop file for the application:

shinythings-webmirror.desktop:

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[Desktop Entry]

Encoding=UTF-8

Type=Application

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Exec=webmirror

Icon=shinythings-webmirror

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Name=WebMirror

Name[nl]=WebSpiegel

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Now the xdg-desktop-icon tool can be used to add the webmirror.desktop file to the desktop:

xdg-desktop-icon install ./shinythings-webmirror.desktop

To add a README file to the desktop as well, the following command can be used:

xdg-desktop-icon install ./shinythings-README