[Solved] Always Use Wrapper When Launching Application

Hello all,
I've write a very simple wrapper for an application (mpv), and would like to always use my wrapper instead of the application.
As far as terminal goes, I did it by using an alias stored in the ~/.bashrc file (alias mpv='/usr/local/sbin/mpv_launch').
However, I'm not sure how to achieve the same when launching mpv from not within the terminal (Dolphin, in my case), in such case the .desktop file is used, which obviously calls mpv itself and not my wrapper.
Is there a way to globally convince the system to always run my wrapper whenever mpv is called, no matter how?
Thanks, Adam.
Last edited by adam777 (2013-05-31 13:46:12)

And one more option: which application gets run depends on the order of your PATH variable. I have "/home/drcouzelis/Library/bin" as the first path in my PATH variable. If I put an "mpv" Bash script in there, then the Bash script will run instead of the installed application.
# An example Bash script to start mpv fullscreen
/usr/bin/mpv -fs "$@"
...of course, if you make a Bash script called "mpv" that calls "mpv", make sure it calls "/usr/bin/mpv" and not itself!

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