I can run a shell script in command line, but not when clicking on its icon.
Why ?
Thanks.

What happens when you click on its icon?

It happens nothing !
The script simply doesn't run ...

What desktop environment are you in? I don't think you can run a shell script from the GUI - you have to either open a terminal window and drag-and-drop the shell script into it OR create a shortcut to the shell script and in the options specify 'run in terminal'.

if you are in KDE..

when you click the script icon it assumes you want the CWD to be ~/ vs where the script is located.

As well you will need to do #chmod +x /path/to/file on the scipt so it will run after clicking it. Else, kde will just open it in a text editor.

I want to run a executable jar file without using command line.
So, what is the best way to do it ?

Just create a shortcut to it (a 'Link to Application') on your desktop or create an entry in the menus for it. Making sure to enable the 'Run in Terminal' option.

I hope this is considered related to this problem.

I wanted either a Panel icon to click on to play a .wav sound file, or a Desktop icon to do the same thing, preferably a Panel icon. I wanted the sound file to play in the background, without opening a terminal. Click the icon, hear the sound, that's it, no terminal window or program window to close.

This solution solved both.

I placed my sound.wav file in "me" /home directory (/home/me) so it was in the path.

Using "gedit" I made the following simple bash shell script named: "sound.sh"


#!/bin/bash
clear
/home/me
play sound.wav


This file (sound.sh) was then placed in the directory /home/me. "play" is a linux program, I suppose furnished either with bash or the system somehow. "play" satisfies playing the sound file in the background, rather than opening Real Player, Banshee, or another program.

The sound.wav file was opened for "Properties", and under "Open With" the "Add" button was clicked and "Use a custom command"(option at bottom) was used to add "play" to the list. "play" was then selected via the radio button in the "Open With" dialog box of Properties.

I took an instrument "image.gif" file and used Gimp to convert in to a "image.png" file, then saved the new "image.png" in the "me" directory.

Use "su" to be as root and copy the "image.png" to the /opt/gnome/share/pixmaps directory.

To put it all together, right click on a space in the Panel. Click on "Add to Panel", click on "Custom Application Launcher", give the launcher a name (Bells), browse for the "Command:" (/home/me/sound.sh). Finally, assign an "Icon:" to the script from the selections offered (/opt/gnome/share/pixmaps).

This allowed playing the sound.wav with one click on the panel "Bells" image.png icon.

By right clicking on the desktop you can also create a launcher for the desktop, where on my system it would have taken 2 clicks to play the sound file in the background. Lazy me opted for the one click panel approach.

Thanks to all those who have offered assistance to me here, and I hope this is some bit of a payback.

I'm using Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on a Dell Optiplex GX260.

$Chip$