.desktop run in terminal switch shell

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Fri Mar 20 19:07:24 UTC 2009


Jan Welker wrote:
> 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.

Is that application a shell script? Then you could start the script with 
this line:

#!/bin/tcsh


Nils




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