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A .desktop file runs some dialog boxes using zenity (more) on an Ubuntu 18.04 system.

I want just the zenity dialog boxes to come up, not the terminal. I've tried setting the Terminal tag to false and running it without the Terminal tag.

I feel like this is a question that should have already been asked on here but I can't seem to find anything on this.

Edit: I'm running zenity version 3.28.1 Also I'm getting a warning "Gtk-Message: 13:03:17.218: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged." when I call a zenity command. I thought maybe that was making the terminal pop up so I tried sending the warning to /dev/null, but the terminal is still popping up.

Edit 2: I think the issue could be related to this post but there doesn't seem to be any solution to his problem either.

Ametz
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The next tried on 19.10 with 3.32.0-4 version of zenity.

Modified my Viber's .desktop file the next way:

$ cp ~/.local/share/applications/Viber.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/runzenity.desktop

$ gedit .local/share/applications/runzenity.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=ZenScript
Comment=Calendar showing
Exec=/home/user/test/zenscript.sh
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/viber.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application

Created ~/test/zenscript.sh script:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/zenity --calendar

Made it executable: chmod +x ~/test/zenscript.sh.

ZenScript application icon appeared in main menu. After clicking it calendar opens without a terminal.

Gryu
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Just put & at the end of the Exec=.... line.

BeastOfCaerbannog
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