A symbolic link? ln -s <FROM_FILE> <TO_FILE>

Edit:

<FROM_FILE> would be the /home/admin/forge-etc…/file

<TO_FILE> would be /home/admin/Desktop/<NEW_FILENAME>

<> means substitute to that

This thread is already over a month old, but here are my two cents anyway.

Via GUI

1. Right-click on the desktop → Create new empty file with file extension .desktop

2. Open the file in a text editor such as Kate and paste in the information for the desktop shortcut:

   [Desktop Entry]
   Type=Application
   Name=Shortcut Name
   Exec=/path/to/script.sh
   Icon=utilities-terminal
   Terminal=true
   

   Notes:

   • The Exec path to the script must of course be set accordingly.
   • If you set Terminal=false then the script will run invisibly in the background.
   • Remember to set permission to run the shortcut as a program (via right-click on the shortcut → Properties).

Via Console

This is a one-liner for the bash/fish console. It creates a desktop shortcut for the current user, fills in the example content from above and sets execution permission for the shortcut.

printf '[Desktop Entry]\nType=Application\nName=Shortcut Name\nExec=/path/to/script.sh\nIcon=utilities-terminal\nTerminal=true\n' > "$(xdg-user-dir DESKTOP)/MyShortcut.desktop" && chmod +x "$(xdg-user-dir DESKTOP)/MyShortcut.desktop"

You can change the file name of the shortcut and the contents of the file afterwards, or before you send the command to the console.

Desktop shortcuts are “.desktop” files in your /home/user/Desktop directory, which are small text files describing what to run and where. I don’t have KDE desktop environment, but there is some way to create a new shortcut, maybe by opening /home/user/Desktop in the GUI file browser and rightclicking empty space/checking menu options for “create link to application” and pointing it to your shell script. Or maybe you can right-click on the desktop directly, but presumably you’ve tried that and it doesn’t work. Worst case, you can write your own forge_installer.desktop file from scratch, specifying the shell script and the working path (if needed). Ask AI how, they are actually good at getting the format correct for stuff like that.