Re: .desktop file execution

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Dan Korostelev wrote:
> Sorry, if this list is not where I should ask this kind of question, but
> is there a way to execute .desktop files thru command line. Something
> like "desktop-exec program.desktop"?

You could use the following:
command=`grep '^Exec=' foo.desktop | head -n 1 | sed 's/.*=//'`
eval "$command"

Issues:
- Only works with Application type .desktop files.
- Does not support substitutions like "%U" in the Exec field.