execute shell script from desktop in xfce

Question

At first I just made a link to the .sh file on my desktop which failed to execute by double click. Then I've read about .desktop files and made one still to no avail. The program I want to run is a shell script with various parameters for executing jar file. My ./desktop file looks as follows:

[Deskto Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=jessator
Comment=starts the jess UI
Exec=/home/alf/Software/Jessator/runJessator.sh
Icon=/home/alf/Software/Jessator/jess-32x32.gif
Type=Application
Terminal=false

Since the script launches from the terminal, it is correct, however since it does not really used the terminal, I don't want to open terminal window to run it. Setting Terminal=true did not help either.

EDIT: The script I am launching:

java -cp $JESSATOR/Jessator.jar:/home/alf/JESS/Jess71p2/lib/*:$JESSATOR/TimerBean.jar Jessator

Solution

You have misspelling in the first line of your .desktop file

[Deskto Entry]

should be

[Desktop Entry]

Comments

[Asteroth]

It is executable, if I open terminal and call the script from there it executes. I thought about just running it that way with & at the end, but even if do that, the program is closed when I close the terminal.

[Asteroth]

Can it have something to do with the script calling a java jar with classpath given as one of the parameters?

[mbiber]

We cant know since you haven't pasted the script.

[Asteroth]

edited the original post, now it holds the exact script