.desktop run in terminal switch shell

Jan Welker jan.welker at gmail.com
Mon Mar 23 08:59:10 UTC 2009


That worked. Thanks. I wonder if there is a nicer solution.

/Jan

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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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