Re: Path in desktop entries

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 11:50:56PM -0400 or thereabouts, Roman Ekjanov wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to run a program in specific location. Is there any way to do 
> this through desktop entry, and not using a helper shell script? In the 
> desktop entry standard there is a key "path" which do exactly what I 
> want, but it seems is not supported by gnome .I am using redaht 8.0 with 
> gnome2.

Do you mean it's not on your path, or that you want it to sit in
a particular working directory?

Would something like this work? Instead of:

Exec:someprogram

...would one of these work?

Exec:PATH=/where/it/lives someprogram
Exec: cd /where/you/want; someprogram

I have not read the desktop entry standard, so for all I know
there is a big section saying "do not do this", of course :) 

Telsa