Launch Program? #935
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New to Dashy. Loving it so far (two days now). Running the latest version in a Docker container. Something I can't find after hours of searching... Can I launch a program from Dashy? I would like to launch a number of programs, including mstsc.exe, the Microsoft Remote Desktop client, and vmware-view.exe, the Horizon Client. Both take command line arguments to seamlessly open the app and connect to a destination host. I use both of these, and several more, many times per day. Is it possible to launch a program from Dashy? If so, how? |
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The answer is yes and no. Natively it's not possible for a website (like Dashy) to launch an app on the host system (without disabling some browser security, I think However there's no reason you couldn't write a script that's hosted somewhere, and then trigger that from a GET request / HTTP hook within Dashy. That should be possible once Action Buttons are implemented, but that's not finished yet. |
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Thank you for the quick response. I'll leave Dashy to handle the bulk of my access needs and curate a few on-screen icons to handle a couple of program launches. Warm regards. |
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The answer is yes and no.
Natively it's not possible for a website (like Dashy) to launch an app on the host system (without disabling some browser security, I think
--allow-file-access-from-filesSource - not recommend!)However there's no reason you couldn't write a script that's hosted somewhere, and then trigger that from a GET request / HTTP hook within Dashy. That should be possible once Action Buttons are implemented, but that's not finished yet.