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I'm new to Ubuntu. I have 14.04 release, and I wanted to add a shortcut of /var/www to my desktop, since I want to do some PHP development. I went to /var/www to make a link, but my right-click menu is greyed out: right click grey

Why is that and how do I solve it?

Terix
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    If you run nautilus with sudo (`sudo nautilus`) then you will able to click on "Make Link" button in whole file system (`/`). – Pandya Sep 21 '14 at 09:32
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    @Pandya [`gksudo nautilus` or `sudo -H nautilus` or `sudo -i nautilus` are preferable to `sudo nautilus`.](http://askubuntu.com/questions/270006/why-user-should-never-use-normal-sudo-to-start-graphical-application) – Eliah Kagan Sep 24 '14 at 00:07

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Try this:

ln -s /var/www/ ~/Desktop/www

You can replace the "www" after Desktop with anything you like.

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"Make link" option is greyed out because the directory is outside your home directory, and you need superuser privileges to create files there. The simplest solution is to create a symbolic link manually. Open a terminal and type 

ln -s <file> <link>

Replace <file> and <link> with proper filenames. <link> should be inside your home directory.

ajn
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