This section is specific to the KDE desktop manager. If you have chosen to use a different desktop manager for your experiment, you will need to figure out how to establish desktop shortcuts on your own.
Creating a desktop shortcut on KDE
Login to a Linux desktop in the DAQ network. This could be an spdaq system or it could be a data-U system. Login using the user name and password for the account under which you will want the shortcut defined.
Right click on any empty chunk of desktop. This will bring up a context menu.
Select the ->->
A dialog will pop up that allows you to create a new desktop short cut:
In the General tab, enter the name of the short cut (this will label the short cut on the desktop), and click the button that's labeled with a blue gear to select an icon image for the shortcut.
In the Application tab, enter the Click the button next to the entry labeled Command:, browse the filesystem and select the filename for the script you want attached to the shortcut, for example, ~/bin/startreadout, the most recent script we created.
There should now be a new shortcut on the desktop. Click it once to test that it works correctly.