Use symbolic links for desktop picture collections

Jan 10, '03 09:10:56AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I found it very annoying that desktop picture collections do not accept aliases, and if I wanted to put an image there that was somewhere else on my system, I had to copy the pictures there. Recently I discovered that symbolic links work in this case (as do hard links, but you have to be careful with those). So you can just use:

 % ln [-s] ~/my_pict.jpg ~/current_desktops/
(or whatever you want to call it). I now have a script set up to do this.

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