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could you perhaps provide an example?

are you saying that you want to run a command through the CLI (command line interface) instead of launching a GUI?

Just to make sure I understood you right...

You want to start a console-based IRC client (just an example!) but you don't want to have to press ALT+F2, to type "konsole" and then to type the name of the start script for your IRC client.
Instead you want to creat an icon on your desktop that executes the steps mentioned above automagically whenever you click on it - right?

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Just to make sure I understood you right...

You want to start a console-based IRC client (just an example!) but you don't want to have to press ALT+F2, to type "konsole" and then to type the name of the start script for your IRC client.
Instead you want to creat an icon on your desktop that executes the steps mentioned above automagically whenever you click on it - right?

Yes you can as I do that too, all you have to do is click on one of the settings saying run in shell or command (I can't remeber exacly what it is from the top of my head) but you should do that when you create the link to a application.

You can tell the shortcut what command(s) to run in the execute tab of its properties window.