Thanks to Sam and Peter; On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 07:03 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > 2009/9/14 William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi; > > Peter, I simply followed your advice using the my radio stations URI and it worked. > [sam@samlap ~]$ cat /usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop | grep Exec > Exec=rhythmbox %U > Thanks Sam. I have been going through all kinds of contortions to find the exact exec command for applications for years. It usually involved open the properties of existing icons or launchers and copying and/or amending pre-configured commands. Your example of using cat /usr/share/... and grep Exec is something I am certainly going to remember. > %U is a URI - so could you not give it the URI of your favourite radio > station? (or am I missing the point) > I wish the developers would stop making everything so easy. I full expected a start command + string of options + a URL. In other gnome applications %U = user name. -- Regards Bill Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3 Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines