Passing an Environment Variable Through Alacarte?

Question

I am trying pass an environment through alacrate in a launcher.

For example, I would like to run: SWT_GTK3=0 /opt/eclipsecdt/eclipse

as a launcher.

But alarate grays out the okay button if I have SWT_GTK3=0.

Any idea how to get around it?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

1. Make a bash file with the content:

   #!/bin/sh SWT_GTK3=0 /opt/eclipsecdt/eclipse

2. make the file executable: chmod +x

3. run that new bash file from alacarte

second alternative would be to create an own .desktop file

1. create a new entry with alacarte
2. find the new file in /home/artur/.local/share/applications it will be named alacarte-made-x.desktop
3. edit the file [Desktop Entry] Comment= Terminal=true Name=export Exec=/bin/sh -c "export SWT_GTK3=0; /opt/eclipsecdt/eclipse" Type=Application Icon=gnome-panel-launcher

alacarte will not let you save that entry if you try to edit it with alacarte again but still that should be a valid .desktop file

For more information about what you can do with the .desktop file see the GNOME Developer documentation