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Adding wvdial to start menu/desktop, running wvdial without shell.

Hello.

Problem: I have to open a shell and write wvdial, then keep the shell up to be able to surf the internet. (This is more an annnoyance than a problem)

Question: I wish to add a line in my Gnome start menu or an icon on the desktop that runs wvdial so i don't have to start a shell and have that shell up while surfing. Also if possible i wish to put an icon or something in lower right corner so i can terminate wvdial when i'm done. Is this possible?

I'm using Backtrack 4 which is Ubuntu 8.04/8.10. Everything is working as it should except for the tiny annoyance from having to open a shell and keep it open to surf the internet.

I have tried using wicd and networkmanager but none of them can handle all three nics/mobiles that i regularly connect to it so i have opted for wicd and wvdial.

Any sugestions on how to solve this annoyance is greatly accepted. Thank you upfront for the help.

Hi, have you tried starting wvdial from the run dialog of your window manager (alt+f2 in fluxbox/gnome/kde/xfce etc,etc..) ?
You could write a kdialog/zenity driven shellscript (check the manuals on those two if you have them ofc.)
other than that you could try this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# wvdial start/stop script

if $1='start'; then

exec wvdial

fi



if $1='stop'; then

killall -HUP wvdial

fi

save it as wvdial.sh, give it executable permissions (chmod +x wvdial.sh) and then just ./wvdial start, then wvdial stop. You are not supposed to keep the terminal going if this works.

Note that I am not familiar with wvdial or backtrack, I just want to help. Dunno if I have syntax errors, I'm on a windows box right now and can't check the shellscript, but you could try it, i suppose it won't hurt :)
Hope this helps/gives you a hint on how to do this.