Command won't execute in launcher

purslow at sympatico.ca purslow at sympatico.ca
Mon May 17 04:46:52 CEST 2004


040516 Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>  On Sun, 16 May 2004, Christopher wrote:
>> On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 10:33, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>>> I have a command
>>>   xyz arg1 "arg2with spaces"
>>> Any ideas on how to make this work?
>> One solution is to just make a wrapper script
>> and have the launcher execute that.
> I thought about that but I was wondering if there is another way.
> I don't remember having to do that before -
> unfortunately I can't remember what I did in that case!

IIRC there was a case like this a few months ago
& OF responded that XFCE launchers don't handle cmds as a terminal does.
have you tried setting 'start in terminal' ?
otherwise, it looks as if a script is the approved XFCE method.

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