How to create a shortcut in UM

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Hello Community. I'd like to know how to create a program shortcut in UM. Thanks for the answer.

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I could created them but some files belonging to the shortcuts can not be erased.

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I mean: I could create them.

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In Linux, the term is "symbolic link".

In the Caja menu, that is shortened to "Link":

MakeLink_Shortcut
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With shortcut you can either mean:

  1. a desktop entry: a file that contains reference to an executable and an icon, like the program shortcuts in windows, also known as '.desktop' files
    --
    global desktop files are to be found in /usr/share/applications
    local (user) desktop files can be found in $HOME/.local/share/applications
    --
    Rightmousbuttonclick on the desktop, choose "create launcher"
    --
    You can edit a desktop-entry with pluma or by rightmousebuttonclick -> "properties"

  2. a softlink: a single filesystemlevel reference to a file.
    (this is what @ericmarceau mentioned in the post above)
    (there is no MS-Windows equivalent)
    --
    Rightmousbuttonclick on a file, choose "make link"
    (see eric's screenshot)

More background info about desktop-entry shortcuts here:

More background info about softlinks here:

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Files belonging to the shortcut, except the executable and the icon, do not exist.
You probably mean something else but I can not guess what you mean instead.
Could you enlighten us ?

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I could create the symbolic link to the program, but I can't erase the files created during the operation. I can't delete the files with the extension named with numbers. They appeared when I created the symbolic links choosing the option on the Menu: Applications, instead of Applications on the terminal.

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If you used symlinks, can you open a terminal where you have the symlink, then report here the results of the following:

ls -l ${symlink} 
ls -lL ${symlink}
ls -ld $(dirname $(ls -l ${symlink} | awk '{ print $NF }' ) )
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So you saw those extra icons on the desktop (workspace) ?

That happens to me sometimes. I usually do this to solve it:

Open Caja (the filemanager) , navigate to your desktop folder and press the refresh button.

If it is what I think it is, the desktop should now be cleared of those temporary files.

If not, then it is something else.

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