Comment 20 for bug 378783

I'm also suffering from this bug, so here's some workarounds I've found on the Internet.

SO suggests the following workarounds:
* gtk-launch foo opens foo.desktop
* exo-open [[path-to-a-desktop-file]...]
* hashbang: #!/usr/bin/env deskopen
* dex foo.desktop

Ref:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/5172/running-a-desktop-file-in-the-terminal