lxshortcut(1)

lxshortcut1

Desktop entry file editor

Usage

lxshortcut [-i input-file] [-o output-file]

Overview

lxshortcut is a simple application that uses LibFM file properties dialog window to change properties of a desktop entry - icon, display name, path and arguments of execution, etc.

Options

At least one option should be specified and if output-file isn't specified then input-file will be used to make a result - either full path or path in XDG specified user data directory for menu entries.

-i input-file, --input=input-file

use input-file as source for editing, it may be some XDG menu entry if no full path is specified or custom path to some file

-o output-file, --output=output-file

write result into output-file

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11–12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

Author

lxshortcut was written by Hong Jen Yee <[email protected]> and modified by Andriy Grytsenko <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Andriy Grytsenko <[email protected]>.

From libfm-gtk3 1.4.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.