desklaunch(1)

📦 version 1.1.8build1, in ubuntu jammy

✨ desklaunch(1) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because desklaunch is one of those tiny little programs that does exactly one thing and does it CUTE 💖 it's the manual page for the desklaunch command, and yes we're doing the whole thing, no skimming, no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

desklaunch — a small utility for creating desktop icons 🎀

🦋 SYNTAX 🦋

desklaunch ...

Desklaunch takes no options. That's it. That's the whole vibe check. She does not want your flags, she does not want your arguments, she simply is. 💅

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

So DeskLaunch is a small utility for creating desktop icons — and honestly? iconic behavior. A simple click will launch the desired application. one click. that's the whole romance. 🫶

The one thing you gotta do, bestie, is create a file called .desklaunchrc in your home directory. No rc file, no icons, no fun. it's giving "you must construct additional pylons". 😭

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • ${HOME}/.desklaunchrc — your config, your rules, your little corner of the filesystem ✨

🧚 EXAMPLE RCFILE 🧚

here's what it actually looks like, and yes you can absolutely copy-paste this energy:

icon=5:5:/usr/share/pixmaps/xterm.xpm:XTerm:xterm
icon=5:5:/usr/share/pixmaps/netscape.xpm:Netscape:netscape

and the format of the file is, drumroll please 🥁:

icon=x:y:xpm_image:tooltip:command

where:

  • x:y is the position of the icon 📍
  • xpm_image is the /path/to/pixmap 🖼️
  • tooltip is the name of the icon launchers 💬
  • and command is the command to execute once clicked 🚀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Ken Lynch <oroborus@blueyonder.co.uk>
  • Ken stopped developing on Deskmenu in late 2001. (we mourn. we move on. we respect the arc 💀)
  • Stefan Pfetzing <dreamind@dreamind.de> (c) 2002-2010
  • This manpage was written by Brandon L. Griffith <brandon@debian.org> because the origonal program did not include one. shoutout to Brandon for doing the unpaid labor fr fr 🙏

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this is desklaunch(1) from version 1.1.x — go make some desktop icons, you absolute main character. slay, periodt, and remember: no options, just vibes. 💖✨🦋

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