Problem running console applications from .desktop
Bela Markus
bmarkus at hasix.org
Thu Apr 1 11:19:01 CEST 2010
I have a problem running console applications from a menu. Take
following example, fdisk.desktop:
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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=fdisk
Comment=fdisk test
Categories=Application;
Exec=sudo fdisk /dev/hda
Icon=dialog-warning
Terminal=true
StartupNotify=false
------------------------------------------
Placing it to ~/Desktop works as expected. When same fdisk.desktop
placed to /usr/local/share/applications it appears in the menu, but when
executed behaves differently. Terminal window opened and closed
immediately, so can't see mwessages if there was any. When fails, no
syslog record added.
Same happenes without sudo and other apps, so it is not sudo or fdisk
related.
It is Xfce 4.6.1 on Tiny Core Linux 2.10 ported by me. When
Terminal=false it works as expected.
Any idea?
Thanks... Béla
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