IDESK(1)

💖 NAME 💖

idesk — bestie, this one displays your program shortcuts as icons right on your desktop ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

idesk

that's it. no flags, no drama, she just goes 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: idesk lets you define shortcuts for a bunch of different programs and then shows those icons on your desktop with a little short description under each one. it's giving organized. it's giving aesthetic. 🫶

and the icons? PNG images, babes. including transparency support so your icons don't come with a tragic ugly box around them 😭✨ it also supports antialiased fonts, so the text is smooth and not all crunchy and pixelated. we love a polished queen 👑

where do the options live, you ask? in ascii files in your home directory, obviously. head down to the FILES section for the whole tea ☕

💡 Tip, and this one's important: to reload your settings, double click with the middle mouse button on any of the icons. yep. middle mouse. not left. not right. middle. periodt 💅

🌸 FILES 🌸

listen closely bestie, because this is where people mess up 🙈

• the main configuration file is called .ideskrc and it must live in your home directory, so: ~/.ideskrc 🏠
• your icons get loaded from lnk-files, which must be placed in ~/.idesktop/*.lnk ✨

and if you need inspo, there are sample configuration files sitting in /usr/share/idesk/. those files contain every single available option, so like… you must read them. not optional. not a suggestion. read them. 👑

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Thorsten Sauter <tsauter@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system, and then modified by Anibal Avelar <idesk.support@gmail.com> for the new version. thank you both, legends 🫶👑

okay that's the whole page!! this one's from Sep 2005, part of the General Commands Manual set, so yeah she's an icon (literally) and she's been iconic for a minute 🌈⭐ love that for her. now go double-click that middle mouse button and slay 💅💖