.desktop run in terminal switch shell

[Brian McKee]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Jan Welker <jan.welker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> If I set Terminal=true in a .desktop file in
> /usr/local/share/applications the application will start in a
> terminal.
>
> Is there a way to tell Gnome in which terminal the application it
> should run? I would like to change the terminal from bash to tcsh. It
> does not read the /etc/passwd file. I already tried that.
<>
> I do have a lot of environment variables in tcsh which bash is not
> aware of which causes apps to fail.
>
Wouldn't it make sense then to make tcsh your default shell via System
-> Administration -> Users and Groups , pick you and look at advanced
tab?

Brian