Creating desktop icon shortcut using gnome
 

Running Redhat 4.2.1 with gnome environment
I have created a desktop icon using create launcher.

I wrote a stand alone software application that does not have a GUI.

During development it was run in a terminal window from the command line, using an alias named "runit". Which points to /home/yada_yada/bin/executable.

No matter how I configure the launcher this will not run.
There is a checkbox for "run in a terminal". I expected that checking that would bring up a terminal and run the executable in that terminal just as if I had done it from a command line. Not so.

A terminal window (that doesn't look at all like my normal terminal window) flashes momentarily on the screen then disappears, my process never appears when doing a 'ps -elf'.

Any ideas about what is going on.

Thanks

emp

try having puting either "terminal" or "xterm" before having the options of WHAT needs to be run. so if you want to run something called "test" in terminal located in /usr/bin, you'd type

system doesn't recognize terminal
 

My linus O.S. does not recognize terminal at the command line.

I should just be able to do this at the command line to check if it works, right?

> terminal /path/executable

the error says that terminal is not recognized.

Are there any other suggestions? Someone must have successfully implemented something like this before.

Thanks

emp

it could be:

>gnome-terminal /path/to/executable

or just try:

>xterm /path/to/executable

Have you tried 'sh /path/to/executable' as the launcher command? I know that, back in the day, when I was using gnome and trying to have certain programs run at startup, I sometimes had to use the 'sh'.

Then again, sometimes I didn't, and I was never able to figure out when I had to, and when I didn't have to....

with red hat and fedora the " sh" should work

but why not use chmod to make the file executable
su -
cd /to/file
chmod +x file name

File is executable already
 

I need the process to come up in a terminal window, there are outputs that must be visible to the user.

I just wanted the implement an icon so the user wouldn't have to navigate around a directory structure in a terminal window then manually input the executable name.