launcher for terminal ap
Disclaimer: not a pressing issue, but a curiosity none-the-less.
Hello. I'm setting up an old laptop for an inexperienced user, and I'd
like to set up a dictionary on the the desktop. The laptop will not be
connected to the internet (except for the occasional dial-up connection
for email).
I tried opendict, but I find it's slow on this laptop (I'm using xfce4,
with neither Gnome nor KDE). opendict is a large program using python,
and runs very slowly. I discovered dict, a terminal application, which
works quite well.
I'm wondering how to have a launcher on the desktop that will open a
terminal, with the command already present (ie, the terminal starts,
with "dict" already typed, meaning the user does not have to remember
this command, and can simply enter the word they want a definition
for.) A launcher for a terminal is "exo-open --launch
TerminalEmulator", but having the terminal already have the command
"dict" entered seems beyond me. If it's not possible, I'll just name a
launcher for the terminal "dict", which will remind the user of the
necessary command.
Perhaps a shell script could work, if not a launcher set-up. Or, if
there are other light dictionary clients that may work well, feel free
to suggest them.
Thanks,
Mark
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