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chip
Asked: 2012-05-19 19:04:47 +0800 CST

how to include an environment variable in the launcher?

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I was trying to make some scripts dynamic by including the environment variable $LOGNAME and even $HOME. but it don't seem to work when placed in a launcher.

I am trying to make code a bit more dynamic 

/home/simon/Desktop/firefox_test.bash

I tried 

$HOME/Desktop/firefox_test.bash

and

/home/$LOGNAME/Desktop/firefox_test.html

but it don't seem to read the environment variables.

launcher environment

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Starter commands usually aren't evaluated by a shell so environment variable don't get evaluated.

    Use

     sh -c '$HOME/Desktop/firefox_test.bash'

    or

     sh -c 'xdg-open /home/$LOGNAME/Desktop/firefox_test.html'
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