Re: How to make a Desktop Entry execute a shell script?

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
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New-Topics: Re: How to make a Desktop Entry execute a shell script? -- success! Thanks!
Subject: Re: How to make a Desktop Entry execute a shell script?
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Josef Lowder wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how to make a Desktop Entry
> execute a shell script?


Run your konsole (or rxvt or xterm) and have it run the command.

> enter the desired search name. It's a small thing, but I'd like to be
> able to eliminate the two extra steps -- having to first open a shell
> and then type the word 'phone' every time.


> Exec=konsole %i %m


I don't know konsole's switches, but rxvt and xterm use an -e switch,
like:

xterm -e phone


Jeremy C. Reed

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