Documentation for desktop launcher??

[aircftech]

Does anyone know of docs about using desktop launcher like the format what you can and cant do?? Trying to launch script.sh | telnet on desktop

[Dies]

http://standards.freedesktop.org/des...y-spec/latest/

[jpollard]

The simplest is to use the menu to create one, and in the launcher
define the command as:

sh -c 'script.sh | telnet <destination>'

If you must make the destination of the telnet variable, then you can't
do it this way - you have to make the script generate a dialog and then
plug it in. For fixed destinations though, this will work.

[jroa1]

If you use the GUI to create a launcher, which is as simple as right clicking on the desktop and selecting "Create Launcher", then the launcher will execute what ever command you have in the command line. If you can type it in the command line, then you can create a launcher to do the same thing.

jpollard is right, though. If you need variables, decisions, or several commands, then you may have to write a script and launch that instead. However, scripts are not that complicated (I just started writing them a week ago and it already seems to me that you can do almost anything from a script).

I am not sure exactly what you are trying to do here, but if you can tell me how you would do it from the command line, I can probably tell you how to either do it from a launcher or from a script. Or, just give a little bit more information about what you are trying to accomplish.