Shortcuts in Debian LXDE

Desktop shortcuts are very useful to order your favorite software.

There is two ways to make shortcuts in LXDE:
 

Clone shortcuts from start menu

1. Press start menu
2. Select the category
3. Right click on item we want to clone.
4. Select option 'Add to desktop'.

Made icons from scratch

• Open the console (Start => Accessories => LXTerminal).
• Select the Desktop folder
  cd Desktop
• Create a file with a name similar to my_app.desktop with this content:
  [Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Name_of_the_app
Comment=Comments_about_the_app
Exec=exec_file
Path=path_to_exec_file
Icon=path_to_icon
Type=Application
Categories=Categories_separate_with_semicolon;

• This file must have writing rights for the owner than must be the user.sudo chmod +x my_app.desktop