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Create Desktop Shortcuts on Ubuntu 13.04 Unity

Last updated: November 1, 2013

This brief tutorial is going to show you how to create application shortcuts on Unity Desktop in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring. You can just drag and drop icons to your desktop, but it won’t always work. Some of them have the permission issues which can be fixed by below steps:

UPDATES: For Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, copy and paste the programs .desktop file from /usr/share/applications to user’s Desktop folder

1.) Search for applications from Unity Dash, drag and drop them onto desktop:

2.) After added all app icons to your desktop, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal.

Change the ownership of them. My username is handbook, in below command change it to yours.

sudo chown handbook ~/Desktop/*.desktop

Make sure all icons are executable:

sudo chmod +x ~/Desktop/*.desktop

You are done. Enjoy!

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Login Without A Password on Ubuntu 13.04, 12.04

Last updated: July 14, 2013

This simple tutorial shows you how to enable log-in a user account without typing its password. Like Guest account, user can be login by single click.

The default ‘User Accounts’ utility can do this job, but it will set user password to none! That’s not good, you’ll need another Administrator account which has the ability to reset your password.

Here I will use the Gnome Users and Groups management tool which was default before Ubuntu goes to Unity desktop.

To install Users and Groups, open up Ubuntu Software Center, search for and install gnome-system-tools package.