.desktop files
Brian J. Tarricone
bjt23 at cornell.edu
Thu May 10 19:16:29 CEST 2007
On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:42:34 +0700 BuraphaLinux Server wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am attempting to add some /usr/share/applications/whatever.desktop
>files to get more applications added to menus. I have a problem with
>Exec lines that have arguments like this:
>
>Exec=app -arg1 -arg2 %f
>
>All arguments are lost and when app is called it has no arguments. I
>checked this with having the Exec call a shell script and the shell
>script just prints ${@}.
>
>I tried various different quoting styles like
>
>Exec="app -arg1 arg2" %f
>
>and
>
>Exec="app -arg1 arg2 %f"
>
>and none of them work. I am using XFCE 4.4.1 compiled from source.
>Here is the file I was working with:
This is fixed in svn and will be pushed out in 4.4.2.
-brian
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