2013/11/7 Christian Schaller <cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Ok, so I guess the solution would be for the launcher to do something like this: > > gnome-terminal --geometry 80x37 --disable-factory --role=bitchx --class=bitchx --name "bitchX IRC" --title "BitchX IRC" > Isn't the Terminal attribute of desktop files[1] supposed to tell the launcher program that it should start the application inside a terminal? My impression is that Gnome at least used to support it, and I know that KDE does support it. It should quite easily allow specifying launchers for terminal-based programs that do not usually need command line arguments. [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct