Does openSUSE have shortcuts?

fester225 · January 19, 2017, 4:02am

I have now gotten openSUSE (LEAP 42.2) installed, and my favorite application installed. Unfortunately there seems to be no way for my application to read files on another drive. This would be solved by putting a shortcut for the remote drive on the LEAP 42.2 desktop.

Do shortcuts exist in LEAP 42.2?

deano_ferrari · January 19, 2017, 4:10am

Which desktop environment are you using? Remote file system (NFS, samba)?

fester225 · January 19, 2017, 4:24am

Gnome.

I doubt I have anything like NFS or Samba installed yet. I’ve been using FILES to read the other drives on my machine.

Debian has a version of a ‘shortcut’ they call a LINK. Does LEAP 42.2 have something like that?

malcolmlewis · January 19, 2017, 4:44am

Hi
Use bookmarks, in the Nautilus window the far right icon (the one with the horizontal lines), it will then save on the left hand window (you can rename as required). Or right-click on the mountpoint and select ‘Add Bookmark’.

What method are you using to connect to the remote system, ssh? Or is the another partition on the local system?

If you go into system settings, tweak tool and in the Desktop section, flick the slider to show desktop icons to on.

deano_ferrari · January 19, 2017, 4:45am

Ok, so local files. I’m not a Gnome user (so others can correct or add to this), but if I understand you correctly, you’d like to be able to have icons (including links to various directories on the desktop). I think ‘gnome-tweak-tool’ can help with this

go on Desktop tab and switch to ON the icons on desktop setting.

After all, you’ll have all the icons you want on your desktop.

http://cialu.net/blog/enable-desktop-icons-fedora-25.html

deano_ferrari · January 19, 2017, 4:50am

Ah, thanks for confirming Malcolm.

Fraser_Bell · January 19, 2017, 7:38am

Cross-posting is such fun, eh?

deano_ferrari · January 19, 2017, 9:23am

Such is the nature of the forums.

fester225 · January 20, 2017, 1:17am

I bookmarked the desired drive, and of course I can’t access it from the OPEN function in my program.
Do you have any more ideas?
Is there a way to suggest a LINK function for openSUSE?

malcolmlewis · January 20, 2017, 1:32am

Hi
So it’s a local drive or partition, you can always mount at boot, or do you only want to access on the fly?

If the partition is mounted, then you can right-click on the desktop, select open Terminal and create a soft-link eg I have a folder on a separate partition (data) and a folder called repositories, to add a link then in the terminal;


cd Desktop
ln -s /data/repositories Repositories

I now have a softlink on the desktop called Repositories

fester225 · January 20, 2017, 4:16am

malcolmlewis:

Hi
So it’s a local drive or partition, you can always mount at boot, or do you only want to access on the fly?

If the partition is mounted, then you can right-click on the desktop, select open Terminal and create a soft-link eg I have a folder on a separate partition (data) and a folder called repositories, to add a link then in the terminal;
cd Desktop
ln -s /data/repositories Repositories
I now have a softlink on the desktop called Repositories

THANK YOU!!! It worked perfectly on the first try!