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Does gnome-launch-box work for XFCE4.x?
Submitted by macavity on Wed, 2007-06-27 00:14.
I would like to run gnome-launch-box on an XFCE4.4 desktop (Xubuntu feisty)
It seems to be able to find my Firefox bookmarks and any files on the desktop but it doesn't seem to be aware of any apps installed on my XFCE system.
Is there a way to tell gnome-launch-box where to look for XFCE apps? How + where is gnome-launch-box looking for apps anyway? Does it search for .desktop files? Can I also make launch-box look for files in other directories than just ~/Desktop?
It looks for applications
It looks for applications according to the freedesktop standards for data directories and desktop files. If you make sure to set the environmetn variable XDG_DATA_DIRS to point to your prefix where your apps are installed, it should work fine. For example XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share.
Regarding file search, it only searches ~/Desktop as a demo/simple test, for a "real" implementation, integration with beagle and/or tracker would be needed. I don't think anyone is working on that though.
I had
I had XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share defined.
All the .desktop files of my installed applications are under /usr/share/applications/*.desktop
The actual application binaries are typically under /usr/bin
What else is required? The information on Freedesktop.org isn't helpful at all.
Is there a verbose debug flag for gnome-launch-box so that I can find out why it can't see my apps?