create a shortcut/alias

allelopath · 03-31-2003, 05:57 PM

How do I create a shortcut on the desktop to something that I start up thru a command line. Suppose I have an application called foo that I start from the command line like so:
./foo
I want to create a shortcut on the desktop (or thru the GNOME menu) to start this.
Thanks!

Crashed_Again · 03-31-2003, 05:59 PM

Right Click on the desktop and go to:

Create New
Link To Application...

allelopath · 03-31-2003, 08:17 PM

This must be it (in RH 8.0, Gnome 2.0):
Right Click on Desktop, select New Launcher.

So in a terminal, i would type
cd /usr/bin/foodir
./foo

but for this, the command needs to happen in one line.
./usr/bin/foodir/foo
doesn't work

How to do this?

Crashed_Again · 03-31-2003, 09:23 PM

You don't need to put the . in the path. A simple:

/usr/bin/foodir/foo

will execute the foo command. You only need to use the ./ if you are in the directory where the command is. So if your present working directory was:

root@localhost /usr/bin/foodir $

and you just typed:

foo

it wouldn't work. Then you would have to do ./foo .

Does that make sense?

allelopath · 03-31-2003, 10:22 PM

That was the first thing I tried, and it doesn't work.
Either dbl-clking on the icon or right-clk and selecting Open results in...nothing.

Crashed_Again · 03-31-2003, 10:24 PM

Are you sure the file you are linking to is executable?

allelopath · 04-01-2003, 09:45 AM

As I said, typing "./foo" causes the program to run.
If i look at the properties of the file, it says:
Type: binary
MIME type: application/x-executable-binary