It has been a while since I have used linux, but just worked on the development of some pretty neat financial software and using DSL to run it easily in VmWare.

Anyways, I have 3 scripts that launch my server apps. As of right now I have to open an aterm window then enter /path/script.sh and then open another window and repeat. I have to have the term windows open since they show heartbeats and etc.

Anyways, what i can NOT figure out, and been at this for 2 days is how to create a desktop link that will automatically launch my script in an aterm window.

I have created the desktop lnk's and use Type: program and my command has been: aterm -T "label" -e /path/script.sh It won't work, the window opens then closes. I have been through every variable of aterm that I can find and no luck. I have been referencing other links that call on scripts and that is how I got the syntax. Also, I am using JWM as the window manager and even tried making a menu item, but that doesn't work.

So, the jist of it is, I can manually open aterm and put in the full path and script and it runs, now how do I make a desktop link that will do that for me?

Nothing on the net about this that I can find.

i dont know about aterm but in xterm i type in the link

xterm -e '/path/scripts.sh'

right, well I have tried aterm and xterm using xterm -T "mylabel" -e /path/script.sh

Which SHOULD work, because if I open aterm or xterm and issue that command a window opens up, however if i do it from the desktop, I get a window that pops up and closes, and if i run it in emelfm, my window pops up and closes and it shows an end-of-output message. I have tried messing with the script and such and I get errors, however i ran across one discussion that made me remeber Konsole, and in Konsole you can set a noclose and a working path. I set hte working path in the script, but my theory is that the aterm or xterm window closes faster than my script starts, based on the emelfm output.

Do you use the ' in between your path? Someone had mentioned it but i tried it and got a sytax error back.

actually, using ' in the path still causes the same thing, a window opens then closes.

yeah i use the ' ' in my path

try to do : xterm -e '/path/scripts.sh'

I am still having the same issue. if i open xterm and type the command another window opens and I am good, but if I use my icon, the window opens then closes. i noticed that the script is slow to start and I read elsewhere also that xterm will terminate as soon as the command is complete, so I am assuming that my script goes then it closes before the app actually launches.

I believe I can add an xterm entry into the script itself, any idea on how to do that? I tried and it just opened about 500 xterm windows.