Navigate to your Steam installation (by default this is located at C: Program Files Steam) Right-click on Steam.exe (this file is listed as an application and features the black and white Steam logo) and select Create Shortcut Right-click on the new shortcut and go to Properties Select the Shortcut tab.
From your Steam library, right click on a game and select 'Create Desktop Shortcut.' You can then drag the shortcut onto your Start Menu. If you just drop it here, it will become 'pinned' to the Start Menu, and you can access it quickly. If you hold your cursor over 'All Programs' for a. Hello, I was just wondering if it was possible to create a steam desktop shortcut that automatically launches steam into big picture mode. I know there's an option in steam that allows you to start steam in big picture mode, but I only want a certain shortcut to be able to do that, as to make it easier to get into big picture mode whenever I'm playing on my tv.
Having issues trying to create a desktop shortcut for a Steam game on Linux?
Well, you can seek some solace in the fact that you’re not alone.
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A number of you have mailed in over the past couple of weeks to tell us you’re having issues trying to make desktop shortcuts to Steam games on Ubuntu (and other Linux distributions, too).
Right-clicking on a title in your Steam library to select the ‘Create Desktop Shortcut’ option throws this error:
You could understand this error were it true, but it shows even when the desktop folder is empty and there are no shortcuts listed in ~./local/share/applications.
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Frustratingly, the issue isn’t limited to games you have already installed. No “start menu” or “desktop shortcut” is created when installing new games, even if the option to do so is checked.
Reader Norah J. is among those affected. She e-mailed in to explain:
“I’ve been experiencing an issue with steam since at least June 12, as have many others. Basically the client refuses to create icons for downloaded games saying that there is already an icon on the desktop…which is false. Obviously its not that difficult to create your own icons (which I have done for the time being), but its annoying.”
For now you can workaround around this inconvenience by making your own game launchers manually, something which Norah says she’s having to do.
You can learn on this Github issue. Hopefully Valve devs will issue a fix for this annoyance soon.
Thanks Norah
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Adding a shortcut to a UWP app on your desktop is very easy to do in Windows 10. UWP apps are modern apps designed for Windows 10. Most, but not all, UWP apps come from the Windows Store. When you install an app, you do not get a shortcut icon on your desktop by default. But doing so is as simple as click-and-drag.
To add a shortcut icon for an app to your desktop, follow these steps:
- Open up the Start menu by clicking on the Start button or pressing the Windows key on your keyboard.
- From the list of apps on the left side of the Start menu, locate the app for which you want to add a shortcut.
- Click and drag the app from the list and pace it on to your desktop
That’s it! It’s as simple as that.
Note:This method will not work if your Start menu is full screen. To learn how to disable fulls screen Start, see this help article (coming soon).
Did you Know? You can move or copy the desktop icon you created to any other location on your PC. You can even rename the icon! Double-clicking the icon will launch the app, regardless of where you put it.