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Old 10-28-2002, 12:39 AM   #1
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Question Wine Friggin Rules! But this makes no sense...


I've gotten wine to run my KaZaA software and my Microsoft Word (ok, ok, I know about AbiWord, but only until they can do tables worth poo). But what doesn't make any sense is that I go into my menu editor and create an object with the appropriate command line, run it, and it closes itself.

I can use the exact same command line in the terminal window and it works, but from the gnome start menu, it botches. Ideas anyone?
 
Old 10-28-2002, 09:22 AM   #2
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depends on what it is, if it's something that needs to run in an xterm you may need this

xterm -e programname

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Old 10-28-2002, 10:21 AM   #3
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Nope, still botches, just with a different window.
 
Old 10-28-2002, 10:32 AM   #4
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make a script like this

#!/bin/sh
cd /path/to/program
./programname


chmod 755 scriptname

run the script from the menu
 
Old 10-28-2002, 10:42 AM   #5
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Don't know why it made a difference, but it worked...thanx!
 
  


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