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#6 2012-01-29 13:21:17
- legoscratch
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Re: Mac and linux desktop path?
On mac it is
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/shortname/Desktop/
or just
/Users/shortname/Desktop/
Make sure you use the short name though.
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#7 2012-01-29 19:27:43
- nathanprocks
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Re: Mac and linux desktop path?
poopo wrote:
TRocket wrote:
poopo wrote:
No drive beginning?no
That's odd Thanks.
Thanks!
Linux and Mac don't have drive letters lol... Instead they have stuff like sda1 etc.
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#9 2012-01-31 03:00:59
- nathanprocks
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Re: Mac and linux desktop path?
poopo wrote:
So short name is like the username?
yes but it can't contain spaces
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#10 2012-01-31 10:36:30
- veggieman001
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Re: Mac and linux desktop path?
Yeah, Windows is the only one with drive names at the beginning. Darwin and Linux have them as mounted folders I believe.
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#11 2012-01-31 10:54:23
Re: Mac and linux desktop path?
nathanprocks wrote:
poopo wrote:
So short name is like the username?
yes but it can't contain spaces
and capitals
actually you better use ~/Desktop (yes, dsektop capitalized), as ~ is the path to the user's directory 
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#12 2012-01-31 14:00:45
Re: Mac and linux desktop path?
Could someone with a mac please run this code and report to me the output and your shortname
Code:
class test
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println(System.getProperty("user.name"));
}
}It's java btw.
Last edited by poopo (2012-01-31 14:01:59)
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#13 2012-01-31 19:22:55
Re: Mac and linux desktop path?
Easiest way to do it is this:
~/Desktop/
On all the *ix's (including Mac), the ~ designates the home folder of the current user.
EDIT: the ~ is not a dash, it is the squiggly thing above tab (it looks similar in the small font)
Last edited by tunasushi (2012-01-31 19:26:24)
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#14 2012-05-17 11:00:25
- TheLinuxUser
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Re: Mac and linux desktop path?
poopo wrote:
TRocket wrote:
on linux i think it is /home/UserName/Desktop
No drive beginning?
Partitions on linux don't need drive names, in fact on linux your dirve has to be the / drive.
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#15 2012-05-17 13:17:02
Re: Mac and linux desktop path?
poopo wrote:
Could someone with a mac please run this code and report to me the output and your shortname
Code:
class test { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(System.getProperty("user.name")); } }It's java btw.
Works for me It echoed the correct shortname.
Also: cool, I just learnt to compile java code! Thanks. 
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#17 2012-05-18 01:17:27
- jji7skyline_test
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Re: Mac and linux desktop path?
muppetds wrote:
yeah on mac you can just do ~/Desktop
regardless of where your user data is kept it will still work fine
That's right.
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