Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: Change the .desktop file to run a script that ensures you have the correct user and environment and cwd/pwd or whatever. This is a common problem with launching apps outside of the commandline I think - for example BeOS would do the exact same thing, including losing the path the app was run from within the app framework. Very annoying! > My question is this. What is the environment (not just the environment > variables but also the directory, umask, ulimits, etc.) that programs run by > the task launcher get? How can I control that environment? I can I make sure > that .profile is run in the environment in which programs run by the task > launcher are run? I would like the task launcher to run programs in the same > environment and with the same directory as is the case in a shell started up > in a virgin osso X terminal window. >
