application launcher

[Nic Stevens]

Mark Edwards wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm new to xfce4 and need to know how to launch an TK application from
> a panel button without requiring a terminal window to be present.
> Currently users can shut the application down simply by issuing a C-c
> to the terminal where the application is running. If I deselect the
> 'run in terminal window' option in the launcher, the app doesn't even
> start up.
>
>   
Hi Mark.

I just wrote a simple tk app and created a panel launcher for it and the 
panel launches it properly.
Does your tk script have an interpreter line at the beginning. It should 
look something like:
#!/usr/bin/wish

hth,

Nic

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