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Editing "Terminal" entry in Whisker Menu has no effect - daniel.tailor - 04-17-2017
## What I would like to achieve:
I'd like my Terminal menu entry to not just launch "lxterminal", but launch "lxterminal --geometry=120x50 -e /usr/bin/fish -l".
Issuing the quoted command from a (Bash) terminal yields the expected result (i.e. a new terminal opens with fish as the shell, with the terminal's size set to 120x50 characters).
## What I've tried
First I did what worked so far both under LXDE and GNOME: copy /usr/share/applications/lxterminal.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications, then edit "TryExec" and "Exec" to contain the command quoted above. Ater several logouts and re-logins, and several attempts at "xfdesktop --reload", the Terminal launcher (or whatever it's called in Whisker Menu terminology) works as usual.
Then I used "Edit Applications" to insert the aforementioned command into the Terminal entries "Command" field. Still no result, "Terminal" works as is it did before.
After some DuckDuckGoing on the topic, I tried adding "X-XFCE" to the .desktop file in the Category line, to no avail.
## Possible related "symptom"
I've installed gedit, and it works just fine, it shows up in Whisker Menu under Accessories. But in Edit Applications, the Accessories category contains no entry for gedit. (I seriously think now that Whisker Menu or something related is really messed up.)
Any ideas? What did I miss?
Code:
$ inxi -b
System: Host: mysecrethostname Kernel: 4.4.0-72-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B75 Pro3 BIOS: American Megatrends v: P1.90 date: 12/20/2013
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i5-3470 (-MCP-) speed/max: 1610/3600 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GK106 [GeForce GTX 650 Ti]
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: [email protected]
GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 650 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 375.39
Network: Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
Drives: HDD Total Size: 2002.4GB (39.7% used)
Info: Processes: 222 Uptime: 1:21 Memory: 1473.7/7926.3MB Client: Shell (fish) inxi: 2.3.8