Thanks for all responses. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that $HOME or other environment variables are all supported by KDE file manager and thunar.
Sounds like no way I can do to make nautilus to support environmental variables, correct? Thanks. Cheers. On 1/18/13, David Liang <dli...@suse.com> wrote: > Hi, > > $HOME is not recognized, it is not supported in the desktop spec. > Nautilus simply get the string after '=' and pass it to chdir. > If you just want this app to start in $HOME, you can remove > the 'Path' line from the desktop file and try gnome-terminal. > gnome-terminal uses the home dir as default. > > In GNOME, when fail to chdir, it will not continue to run the app. > Maybe in KDE, it still continue to run the app and use a default dir? > > >>>> jupiter <jupiter....@gmail.com> 2013-1-17 下午 16:59 >>> > Hi, > > I am running nautilus on CentOS 6.2. If I run an application to click > it's icon in menu, it worked fine. but when I copy the application > icon to the desktop, and I clicked the desktop launcher, it had error > messages "Failed to change directory $HOME ( (No such file or > directory)", and another warning "(nautilus:12946): GLib-GIO-WARNING > **: couldn't find a terminal, falling back to xterm" > > The errors were due to that menu application includes "Path=$HOME" and > "Terminal=1" in its menu desktop file. Since the same desktop file is > running fine by KDE file manager or thunar, not clear if the system is > missing something or not configure properly for nautilus. > > Appreciate any tips for how to fix it. > > Thank you. > > Kind regards. > -- > nautilus-list mailing list > nautilus-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list > > > > -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list