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I'm trying to create an Twitter quicklist desktop file, but I can figured how to resolve one thing.

To compose an message at Twitter, I made the following command: Exec=xdg-open 'https://twitter.com/#!/' && sleep 3 && xdotool key n

(execute)+(open browser)+(Twitter main URL)+ Some seconds to open + Keyboard shorcut to compose.

If I use in terminal, works fine. But in the .desktop file (to make Unity Quicklist) it just doesn't work. Any idea how to fix it?

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I would use

Exec=sh -c "xdg-open 'https://twitter.com/#!/' && sleep 3 && xdotool key n"
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  • Work just perfect. Can you just explain what sh em -c mean? (I'm not an advanced Linux programer, hehe)
    – euDennis
    Jan 28, 2012 at 20:06
  • @euDennis: you are using &&, that is a shell construct, so you have to use a shell, i.e. sh, or also bash
    – enzotib
    Jan 28, 2012 at 20:31

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