[SOLVED] Why can't I put a shortcut of "Documents" on my taskbar?

LAPIII · 04-07-2011, 11:34 AM

I tried dragging the Documents icon from the Menu onto the Taskbar and it doesn't work. I was able to drag onto the Desktop and then to the taskbar, but when removing from the Desktop, I can't open the Taskbar shortcut.

szboardstretcher · 04-07-2011, 11:36 AM

KDE, Gnome, XFCE,.. etc.. ?

Which are you using?

LAPIII · 04-07-2011, 12:35 PM

Gnome

szboardstretcher · 04-07-2011, 12:40 PM

Im not entirely sure why you aren't able to drag it... but if you want a workaround:

Right click on a panel
Click 'add to panel'
Click 'custom application launcher
Choose Type 'location
Name it 'documents'
Type '/home/username/Documents for the location
Click OK

LAPIII · 04-07-2011, 01:04 PM

What do I keep doing wrong that I get an error when trying to open the created shortcut:

szboardstretcher · 04-07-2011, 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Advice Pro

What do I keep doing wrong that I get an error when trying to open the created shortcut:

remove the quotes

/home/lwiii/Documents

I assumed that you would remove them from my directions.

LAPIII · 04-07-2011, 01:39 PM

No quote, but still the error:

EDDY1 · 04-07-2011, 01:45 PM

Try right-click on Documents
then select add to panel

EDDY1 · 04-07-2011, 01:59 PM

I tried it and it didn't work.
But you can copy to desktop

szboardstretcher · 04-07-2011, 02:11 PM

Is that a valid path?

Code:

ls -alh /home/lapiii/Documents

Im not sure why it wouldn't work.

LAPIII · 04-07-2011, 02:15 PM

Yeah valid, the output of above command:

Code:

total 244K
drwxr-xr-x  4 lapiii lapiii 4.0K 2011-04-07 11:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 62 lapiii lapiii 4.0K 2011-04-07 14:37 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 lapiii lapiii  49K 2011-03-23 12:18 All Prayers in the Bible.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 lapiii lapiii  81K 2011-03-23 12:18 All Prayers.okular
drwx------  3 lapiii lapiii 4.0K 2011-02-21 17:22 My RoboForm Data
drwxr-xr-x  2 lapiii lapiii 4.0K 2011-03-04 11:32 Roboform macros
-rw-r--r--  1 lapiii lapiii  28K 2011-03-14 18:38 Seek (Favorites).odt
-rw-r--r--  1 lapiii lapiii  62K 2011-03-13 19:41 Seek.odt

EDDY1 · 04-07-2011, 02:17 PM

Is it on panel or desktop?

knudfl · 04-07-2011, 02:45 PM

The file manager 'nautilus' can open in a defined directory.
( Help commands : nautilus --help ( And nautilus --help-sm-client )).

Right click on a panel
Click 'add to panel'
Click 'custom application launcher'
Name = Documents
Command = nautilus --browser /home/lapii/Documents

..

EDDY1 · 04-07-2011, 03:11 PM

@knudfl I tried it & it works so I guess op cn do the same
Learn something everyday

LAPIII · 04-28-2011, 09:50 AM

I don't know why it didn't work for me. My solution was to open the Home folder and drag the Documents folder to the taskbar. IThe icon was a black block,so I changed it by clicking on it in Properties of its context menu and I chose drive-harddisk.png from usr > share icons oxygen 128x128 > devices.