Create Desktop Shortcut

Creates a shortcut of folders, applications, files, and others, on the desktop folder.

Installation Instructions

It is highly recommended that you install this action through the actions settings module available by default starting from LM 21.3 and in the updated versions of LMDE 6 (write actions on the app menu to find this module), however, if that is not available or accessible for any reason follow through the following procedures to install this action in your system:

1. The following dependencies must be available on your system: nemo, xdg-user-dirs, python3, bash, and gtk3, if you are on a more recent version of Linux Mint it is very likelly that they are already installed on your system,

2. Download the package of this action from the cinnamon spices web-site,

3. After downloading the package open the terminal in the folder the where the downloaded create-desktop-shortcut@anaximeno.zip file is located and run the following commands to install the action on your system:

unzip create-desktop-shortcut@anaximeno.zip -d ~/.local/share/nemo/actions
cd ~/.local/share/nemo/actions && cinnamon-xlet-makepot -i create-desktop-shortcut@anaximeno && cd -1