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lagagnon

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From: an Island in the Pacific...

Registered: 2009-12-10

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How place an LD_PRELOAD bash command into a .desktop file (LXDE)

To enable video in Skype with my webcam I must launch skype the following way:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

To get that command done from my LXDE menu I tried to edit the skype.desktop file and place that line after the "Exec" desktop spec. It does not work, in quotes or not, nor with a full pathname to skype.

How can I force my desktop entry to run the command above?

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falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

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Re: How place an LD_PRELOAD bash command into a .desktop file (LXDE)

Wrap it in a script

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tavianator

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From: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-08-21

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Re: How place an LD_PRELOAD bash command into a .desktop file (LXDE)

bash -c "LD_PRELOAD=... skype" should work too, for example.