[Jeiara]

Hi all,
Friend installed VMWare and SUSE Linux on my comp so I could do my programming assignments at home and not have to SSH to school server/drive to school to use Linux lab. The shared folders (so I can access my program files located in Windows) are in /mnt/hgfs/CS Programs/

I don't want to type that everytime I want to compile (the default is /home/user), so I just want to make a desktop shortcut so I'm at the terminal ready to go.

I did a Create New > Link to Application > and in the Execute tab I wrote cd '/mnt/hgfs/CS Programs/' and checked the Run in terminal box. That didn't work. So searched around on the Net and saw some sample shell scripts to run programs. I then created file with this:

#!/bin/bash
cd /mnt/hgfs/CS Programs/

Yeah, that didn't work either. I not familiar with navigating Linux or KDE whatever it is, all I've used it for was for emacs and compiling C++ programs at school, so I'm rather clueless to do this simple thing.

[Squashman]

You could create a symbolic link to the directory in your home directory or create an alias command that will take you directly to the directory.

ln -s /mnt/hgfs/CS Programs ./csprograms
alias cwd='cd /mnt/hgfs/CS Programs'

But remember that unix/linux does not like spaces in directory and filenames. You will need to put back slashes in before the spaces or put the path in quotes.