Command won't execute in launcher

[Christopher]

On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 10:33, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> I have a command
> 
> xyz arg1 "arg2with spaces"
> 
> that works perfectly from the command line.  When I set up a launcher with 
> this command and tell it to run in terminal all I get is a quick flash 
> like a terminal window opened and then closed.  I've tried various 
> combinations of quoting (single, double, use \ to mark the space) and 
> tried exec xzy arg1 "arg2with spaces" and nothing works.  
> 
> Any ideas on how to make this work?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

One solution is to just make a wrapper script and have the launcher
execute that.