I have a need to open Linux .desktop web links on a windows machine. Currently I drag the web page's address to a shared folder in Linux, and that is available on the LAN for others to open. This works fine with other Linux machines on the LAN, but Windows machines are not reading the URL.
The Linux .desktop link is actually a small text file, and the URL is embedded in its last line. But Windows does not recognize the file type, and when I associate it with a browser in Windows (vivaldi, in my case), the browser simply opens the .desktop file as a text file rather than going to the desired URL target.
Is there any way to get Windows to pass the .desktop target info to a browser?
Thanks.
.desktop
files are Linux specific and not even meant to share URLs but as a "shortcut" to run software.