desktop link (idesk type) to bzflag doesn't work

[Defman]

anybody familier with idesk?

It allows someone using a minimal WM like fluxbox, blackbox etc. to be able to put desktop icons (links) on the desktop.

specs
P3 500Mhz (ashamed to admit that LOL)
Mandrake 10 with kernel 2.6.3-9mdk
Fluxbox 0.9.8
Idesk 0.5.5
ROX-Filer 2.1.1

I can get three other links to work, one to my /home directory, one for my email client and the other xmms to work, but for some reason the one I created for bzflag doesn't work.

an example of one that works;
table Icon
Caption:
Icon: /usr/share/icons/gentoo/xmms.png
X: 138
Y: 124
Command[0]: xmms
Command[1]: gedit ~/.idesktop/xmms.lnk
end

and the one for bzflag which doesn't work;
table Icon
Caption:
Icon: /usr/share/icons/gentoo/bzflag.png
X: 31
Y: 248
Command[0]: /usr/games/bzflag -echo > /home/steve/bzflag/logs/`date +%Y_%m_%d_%S`.log
Command[1]: gedit ~/.idesktop/bzflag.lnk
end

both links have a second command function set to open their respective .lnk files for easy editing, and the one for bzflag.lnk does work - as well as their Caption's are left blank on purpose (and yet the xmms one works like this)

when I say bzflag doesn't work, I mean the game does not even start. No errors or anything pops up. The log is created from the Command[0]: /usr/games/bzflag -echo > /home/steve/bzflag/logs/`date +%Y_%m_%d_%S`.log
line, but it is empty.

I've tried variations of the above line;
Command[0]: bzflag
Command[0]: BZFlag (script which contains /usr/games/bzflag -echo > /home/steve/bzflag/logs/`date +%Y_%m_%d_%S`.log)
Command[0]: /home/steve/BZFlag

when I run any of those commands in a terminal, bzflag works just fine.

Any ideas?
Tanks in advance

[orchid]

I had problems with idesk when i used tabs instead of spaces
when I edited them, sorry thats not much help, but idesk is really fussy about that stuff.

also have alook at
http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbdesk/

alot of fb users choose flbdesk over idesk

good luck!

[Defman]

I had problems with idesk when i used tabs instead of spaces when I edited them, sorry thats not much help, but idesk is really fussy about that stuff.

also have alook at
http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbdesk/

alot of fb users choose flbdesk over idesk

good luck!

with your suggestion about the issues with spaces or tabs - I created a bzflag.lnk from scratch and it works now. Previously I just copied from another working .lnk file and modified it.

As for fbdesk, tried it - but could not get it to display the right icon. Besides, I like idesk's feature of showing a shadow where the icon would snap to while dragging it around the desktop - helps line things up.

Thanks again for the suggestions