Dropping shortcuts on the desktop is one of those things that Windows users do without overthinking about it. It's unfortunate, but a newcomer to Linux can find doing that simple tas… See more

To demonstrate this process, we're going to create a desktop shortcut for LibreOffice writer. Now that we've turned on the ability to have icons on the desktop, we just need to drag so… See more

Sometimes applications do not provide a .desktop file. Programs that have been written in-house or applications you might have downloaded from Github, for example, often don't … See more

On this test computer, we've got a program that doesn't have a .desktop file. The first thing to do is to check that the application runs. If it doesn't, you're not going to get it working wit… See more