Working Directory in Launcher
Siggy Brentrup
winnegan.ubuntu at ewetel.net
Fri Jul 3 18:45:31 UTC 2009
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 11:04:56AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> If I right click on the Desktop and opt to create a launcher, I need to
> specify the working directory fo the program that is being launched.
> Specifically, I want the directory that contains the file being executed to be
> the working directory for that execution.
>
> There has to be a way to do that, but I'm missing it. How is this done?
Try something along the lines of
sh -c "cd <working-directory> && <command-to-run>"
in the launchers command entry.
Regards
Siggy
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