Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

From	Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands
Date	2020-09-08 19:00 +0200
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On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 17:41 +0100, Tixy wrote:
[...]
> You don't have to rely on the GUIs default terminal. If you set
> "Terminal=false" in the .desktop file you can launch your script how
> you want, e.g. I've used something...
> 
> Exec=lxterminal --geometry=80x30 -e "sh -c /my/script"
> 

I've just realised that may not work for you as the freedesktop spec
[1] says

"Field codes must not be used inside a quoted argument, the result of
field code expansion inside a quoted argument is undefined."

So it may not work for you using %F to specify passing multiple files
to your script like:

Exec=lxterminal --geometry=80x30 -e "sh -c /my/script %F"

[1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s07.html

-- 
Tixy

Thread

Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands "Christoph K." <christoph@kobenetz.de> - 2020-09-07 22:50 +0200
  Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-08 12:00 +0200
    Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands "Christoph K." <christoph@kobenetz.de> - 2020-09-08 14:20 +0200
      Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-09 00:40 +0200
  Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-09-08 14:10 +0200
    Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-09-08 14:50 +0200
      Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-09-08 15:20 +0200
      Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands "Christoph K." <christoph@kobenetz.de> - 2020-09-08 17:20 +0200
        Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-09-08 18:50 +0200
          Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-09-08 19:00 +0200
          Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands "Christoph K." <christoph@kobenetz.de> - 2020-10-13 14:20 +0200
  Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-09-08 20:00 +0200

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