Re: Launch bash script using desktop icon?

[Esther Parrilla Endrino <esther parrilla deimos-space com>]

Hi,
thanks a lot for sending your example, it worked too for me!
I think maybe the problem is realated to the environment in which my
Java app should run is not the same if I launch the script directly than
if I launch the script using the desktop icon :(
 
i'll keep on trying

regards,

e*

El mié, 25-02-2004 a las 21:51, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez escribió:
> Hi!
> 
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:02 +0100, Esther Parrilla Endrino wrote:
> 
> > I have created a desktop icon in my $HOME/.gnome-desktop folder that
> > launches a bash shell script, the code inside the *.desktop file is
> > something like:
> > 
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Name=dummy 
> > Comment=dummy Script 
> > Exec=/home/foo/script.sh
> > Type=Application
> > 
> > When I double click the icon in my desktop it does nothing!
> > I have tried too to create the icon not manually but using the desktop
> > options to create a new launcher and it does not work either...
> 
> I have just created a test.desktop file in my ~/Desktop directory, whith
> the following contents:
> 
>         [Desktop Entry]
>         Encoding=UTF-8
>         Version=1.0
>         Type=Application
>         Exec=/home/mariano/test.sh
>         TryExec=
>         X-GNOME-DocPath=
>         Terminal=false
>         Name[en_US]=test
>         GenericName[en_US]=
>         Comment[en_US]=
> 
> and an executable file /hime/mariano/test.sh with the contents
> 
>         #!/usr/bin/bash
>         exec gnome-about
>         
> and clicking on the desktop launcher Works™. 
> 
> A remark: 1) the Terminal field should be false, unless the script will
> run _in_ a terminal: in your case, your script ends with an 
> “exec some-app” line, which ends the shell, and makes the containing
> terminal to end, too; indeed, you clearly do not want to have a terminal
> while your app is running. 2) your script should probably not rely on
> having the current working directory set to anything useful, and
> explicitely set it doing a “cd /here/is/where/I/want/to/be” before
> exec'ing the java app. Saying “-classpath .” obviously depends on the
> current directory; I don't think this is your problem, but it wont
> hurt ;)
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -- m
> 
> PS: I am running GNOME 2.5.HEAD, and some things have changed, but they
> should not matter much, I guess.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>
> 
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