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I'm new to ubuntu and Linux and just installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

I know there are tons of tutorials out there how someone could create a shortcut. Unfortunately none of them really worked for me.

I have a ~/shellscript.sh which I'd need to call periodically.

How can I create a shellscript launcher as simply as

e.g. ln -s ~/shellscript.sh ~/Desktop/run-shellscript

where I simply can click on it to run it? (Remark: ln command above doesn't work)

Thanks for your contributions!

Eranda Peiris
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ssssstut
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  • Found this and tried this before without success.

    I tried the following:

    start-xmr-stak.desktop

    [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=Test Comment=Test Exec=~/Desktop/xmr-stak-bin/xmr-stak Icon=utilities-terminal Terminal=true StartupNotify=false GenericName=Test

    note: shortcut and script are executable

    Dialogue appears: "There was an error launching the application" - OK button

     – ssssstut Jun 13 '18 at 07:27
  • @ssssstut you need to use full path, the ~ in Exec=~/Desktop... won't be interpreted as user's home, because that's a feature of a shell. .desktop files do not run in shell. So use Exec=/home/your_username/Desktop/, full path – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jun 13 '18 at 07:32
  • when I use Exec=/home/user/xmr-stak/build/bin/xmr-stak the program gets called however the configs in the direcory are not found. When I modify the .desktop accordingly it doesn't work: path=/home/user/xmr-stak/build/bin/ Exec=xmr-stak – ssssstut Jun 13 '18 at 09:51
  • solved. used this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/64222/how-can-i-create-launchers-on-my-desktop sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch/testing sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install arronax nautilus -q

    [Desktop Entry]

    Type=Application

    Name=XMR-STAK

    Comment=run xmr stak

    Exec=/home/user/xmr-stak/build/bin/xmr-stak Terminal=true Hidden=false

    Name=xmr-stak

    Path=/home/user/xmr-stak/build/bin/

    Icon=utilities-terminal

     – ssssstut Jun 15 '18 at 13:26

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