Shortcuts on my desktop?

Question

I'm new to Ubuntu. I have 14.04 release, and I wanted to add a shortcut of /var/www to my desktop, since I want to do some PHP development. I went to /var/www to make a link, but my right-click menu is greyed out: right click grey

Why is that and how do I solve it?

If you run nautilus with sudo (sudo nautilus) then you will able to click on "Make Link" button in whole file system (/). — Pandya, Sep 21 '14 at 09:32
@Pandya gksudo nautilus or sudo -H nautilus or sudo -i nautilus are preferable to sudo nautilus. — Eliah Kagan, Sep 24 '14 at 00:07

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '14 at 07:51

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Try this:

ln -s /var/www/ ~/Desktop/www

You can replace the "www" after Desktop with anything you like.

answered Sep 19 '14 at 07:51

BIfrost

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ajn · Answer 2 · 2014-09-19T10:52:11.803

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"Make link" option is greyed out because the directory is outside your home directory, and you need superuser privileges to create files there. The simplest solution is to create a symbolic link manually. Open a terminal and type

ln -s <file> <link>

Replace <file> and <link> with proper filenames. <link> should be inside your home directory.

edited Sep 19 '14 at 10:52

answered Sep 19 '14 at 07:59

ajn

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Shortcuts on my desktop?

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