On Tuesday 26 July 2005 12:12, Joan Malagarriga Duarte wrote: > Hi, > In the Desktop launchers the Path Key, is it allways a "satic" string, > lets say /home/data/startmyapphere, or is it a way to pass a directory > to it, like the %d in the Exec Key ? > My problem is, that many aplications I use, need to be started in the > same directory as the file they use, but using a desktop launcher for > these aplications allways start it in my home, so they fills my home > directory with lots of output files I've got to then sort out.
You could start a script that cd's into the target directory before launching the actual binary thus making the target directory the current working directory for the application. Cheers, Kevin
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