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Zhenli

Member

Registered: 2007-08-28

Posts: 7

cant start added apps from gnome menu

Hi!

I cant launch any applications i add to my gnome menu for example i added this matlab.desktop file to /usr/share/applications/

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Matlab
Comment=Matlab 7.4
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/local/matlab/bin/matlab
Icon=/usr/local/matlab/X11/icons/matlab48c_icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Categories=Application;Development;
StartupNotify=false

i can see the start up screen of the applications but then when it finished loading it just quit, i works ok tho if i launch it from terminal.

Same for this wifi-radar i added to my gnome panel

gksudo -u thomas -k -m "Enter Password" wifi-radar

it happends nothing when i click on it but when i use the terminal it works ok.

anyone that can help me out?

regards

delacruz

Member

From: /home/houston

Registered: 2007-12-09

Posts: 102

Re: cant start added apps from gnome menu

had to same problem, try this

Exec=/usr/local/matlab/bin/matlab -desktop

Zhenli

Member

Registered: 2007-08-28

Posts: 7

Re: cant start added apps from gnome menu

yup it worked, thanks

still cant get gksudo to work tho.