[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 16, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> In Mac OS X, an alias on the desktop, when double-clicked, appears to 
> launch the application in the top-level directory/Desktop directory, 
> i.e. the current directory is the desktop.  It might be possible to 
> put X11 applications such as Ethereal into an application bundle;

You can sort of do it, but not very nicely - DISPLAY has to be set, and 
you have to ignore the "-psn_..." argument passed to it, and it doesn't 
deliver the appropriate notification to make its Dock icon stop 
bouncing.

>  I don't know in what directory it'd be launched if we did that.

The Desktop directory, it appears.