Date: 2025may20 Product: GNOME Keywords: Free desktop Q. GNOME: .desktop file to launch a terminal A. Save as myname-terminal.desktop

[Desktop Entry] Type=Application Categories=Development Name=My Terminal Comment=Terminal in my folder Exec=/usr/bin/ptyxis --new-window --title=MyTerminal -d /usr/local/src/myfolder Icon=/usr/local/src/myfolder/myicon.png # OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE; # X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=PreDisplayServer X-GNOME-AutoRestart=false X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true # Terminal=true # SingleMainWindow=true

Notice you can give the window a custom title/icon and and have it start in the folder you want.