Re: Enviroment variable in .desktop

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 19:29, Qihua Wang wrote:
> Is there any way to put in text in the xxx.desktop for Exec= that would pick up, not the literal text, but a value from 
> elsewhere? Like an environment variable?
> I'd like to have the launch location specified in .desktop using environment variable since I don't know where the user 
> installs the application for launcher.

	(Where's the relevance to GConf? gnome-list would be the right place
for this question?)

	Try putting "bash -c 'foo $BAR'" in the Exec line.

Cheers,
Mark.