Re: Setting up a desktop launcher

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 12:33:31PM +0100 or thereabouts, O.Bedford@uni-koeln.de wrote:
>   I've tried to create a desktop launcher as a shortcut for a telnet
> connection.
>   The command is "telnet host" and it should be run in a terminal.
>   When I create such a launcher on the desktop with gmc telnet is not
> started in a gnome-terminal but in a xterm. Why? (Same is true for
> a launcher from the panel)

I don't know. This puzzles me, too. Why do things with 'run in
terminal' get run in an xterm, and is there a way to easily change 
this to running in a gnome-terminal being the default?

Because I want gnome-terminals, instead of making launchers and menu
items by typing the command name into the launcher and clicking 'run
in terminal', I do them by typing the command name as an argument to
gnome-terminal and not clicking 'run in terminal'.

For example, the properties for one are something like:

Name: Lightning
Comment:
Command: gnome-terminal --title=Lightning --command="slogin lightning"
Type: Application

with the "run in terminal" box unchecked (and a whole bunch of foreground,
background, and geometry options cut out :))

This should work for you, too. I wish I knew why Gnome runs xterms
rather than gnome-terminals for the default when you hit "run in 
terminal", though..

Telsa