On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 14:06 +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: > 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 GNOME supports the Terminal key just fine. But just having your commandd run in a terminal is not quite enough to give it an identity as a separate application - to the rest of the system it will appear just as a terminal. The extra arguments that Christian shows there help to overcome this problem. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
