Launching a Shell Script via .desktop in Raspbian Wheezy

Question

I am trying to launch OMXplayer and play a sequence of videos on loop on a RaspberryPi running Raspbian Wheezy. I have got a working shell script which launches and plays the videos courtesy of http://www.cenolan.com/2013/03/looping-video-playlist-omxplayer-raspberry-pi/

I have this placed in /home/pi/ and it is executable. I have created a file testsh.desktop in /usr/share/applications/ which I have also made executable. This file contains:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=true
StartupNotify=true
Name=Play
Comment=Plays videos
Exec=/home/pi/playvideos.sh
Categories=Application;

I have also tried setting exec as:

Exec=lxterminal --command "/home/pi/playvideos.sh"

This isn't working and I guess I am missing something obvious.

Solution

It doesn't work if you have Terminal=true, it runs

x-terminal-emulator "/home/pi/playvideos.sh"

x-terminal-emulator is lxterminal which needs --command to run a command

Either:

Set Terminal=false and run the script with

Exec=lxterminal --command "/home/pi/playvideos.sh"

as you tried before.

Or:

Set Terminal=true and run the script with

Exec=--command "/home/pi/playvideos.sh"

Comments

[parkydr]

Weird, it works ok in KDE, but not on my Raspberry PI.