I would like to put one single icon in the Desktop that actually opens the Desktop. Any ideas?

Question

The idea is to turn my Desktop into a place where I can put a image reference of what I am learning at the moment. This would be an example

This means:

puttig an image of the reference of what I'm learning as a background of the Desktop (already possible)
having the icons of files, folders or even removable USB pens available (one click away) but without blocking te view to that background

Any Ideas? Or alternative solutions?

@terdon Exactly. But without the icons blocking the view to that background.
Why don't you just create a folder on the desktop and move all your desktop icons into that folder?

Alexandre Martins · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-28 16:30:31Z

This is not an answer to my question but, until now, it IS the best solution I could find.

I wrote a script called cs with the following code

    #!/bin/sh
    eog --fullscreen [path to the image I want to see]

and placed it in ~/bin since this is in my $PATH.

Then I run:

    chmod +x ~/bin/cs

Finally, to get access to it, I just press Alt-F2 and then cs (as in cheatsheet) followed by Enter.

This if far from ideal since I:

So, if you have a better solution, please state it.

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