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Q&A How do I tweak the start parameters of GUI apps?

There are many GUI apps on my computer that show up as eg. items in the start menu. When I launch these, what if I want to control how exactly they are launched, such as setting environment variabl...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

#1: Initial revision by user avatar matthewsnyder‭ · 2023-09-08T20:24:10Z (8 months ago)
How do I tweak the start parameters of GUI apps?
There are many GUI apps on my computer that show up as eg. items in the start menu. When I launch these, what if I want to control how exactly they are launched, such as setting environment variables or adding additional parameters?

For example, I can of course type `SOME_ENVAR=foo gedit --some-argument` in the console. But I don't normally launch gedit from the console, I click on its menu item or it opens automatically when I double click on text files.