Exercise 4: D. S. Technical

Right-click on the desktop and choose Create Launcher from the pop-up menu. Enter the settings shown in Figure 4.7 be certain to set the type to Link. Click on No Icon and choose an icon. (apple-red.png works well for this purpose.)

Figure 4.7. Create a desktop launcher.

Click OK. The icon should now appear on the desktop and double-clicking on it should bring up the folder shown in Figure 4.8.

Figure 4.8. The launcher and its results.

NOTE

A launcher works much like a traditional shortcut in other operating systems. The word launcher, though, is used to keep it from being confused with other shortcuts, like the one created in exercise 3.