Frequent Question: How Do I Get to the Desktop in Linux Terminal?
Contents Within Terminal We First Need to Navigate to the Desktop. If You Are Already in Your Home Directory, You Can Type Cd Desktop and Then Pwd to Confirm...
Within Terminal we first need to navigate to the Desktop. If you are already in your home directory, you can type cd Desktop and then pwd to confirm you are in the right spot.
How do I open the Desktop in Linux terminal?
If you were in for example /var/www and you want to go to your desktop you would type one of the following: cd ~/Desktop which is the same as typing /home/username/Desktop because the ~ will by default point you to the directory of your username. Think of it like ~ is equal to /home/username . cd /home/username/Desktop.
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