Detaching Amarok from bash script run from KMenu

srunni · 08-11-2008, 10:58 AM

Hi,

I'm using a bash script run from the KMenu to launch Amarok, so that I can mount the NFS share on which my music directory is located. The script checks to see if the directory is mounted. If not, it attempts to mount it. If the directory is mounted at that point, it launches Amarok. Otherwise, it terminates. This makes sure that Amarok doesn't launch without the music directory mounted, which would require me to rebuild the collection the next time I open it with the directory mounted.

Anyway, my problem is with launching the script from the KMenu. When I run the script from the terminal, just using

Code:

amarok

will allow me to close the terminal after Amarok's been launched, without any problems with Amarok terminating as well. But when I launch the script from the KMenu, none of the following (which I found online) work for me:

Code:

amarok

Code:

amarok &

Code:

( ( amarok & ) & )

Code:

amarok
disown %1

Code:

amarok &
disown %1

Code:

( ( amarok & ) & )
disown %1

Any ideas on how to get this to work?

Thanks!

indienick · 08-11-2008, 11:17 AM

Try $(nohup amarok).

*shrug* I can't give any explanation as to why you should try it, I just know it's worked for me in the past to keep applications from closing until they are terminated through their built in calls.

srunni · 08-11-2008, 11:22 AM

I'm getting there - now it's not closing the terminal once the script terminates, but when I close the terminal manually, Amarok stays open. Any chance you'd know how to automatically close the terminal as well? I tried

Code:

exit

and it didn't work.

indienick · 08-11-2008, 12:23 PM

Is it necessary for the terminal to show when the script is being run? I only ask because it sounds like you have the "Run in terminal" box checked, in which case it's a simple fix - just uncheck the "Run in terminal" box.

srunni · 08-11-2008, 02:26 PM

Well, I'd like to see the output that the NFS share couldn't be mounted. But I guess if there's no way around it, I'll just uncheck that.

indienick · 08-11-2008, 02:55 PM

I realize it's a slightly unnecessary step, but you could use a package like Zenity to provide a GTK+ message box to tell you if the NFS shares were mounted successfully or not -- it's like "dialog" but provides a nice GTK+ interface, and is used by the command-line.

srunni · 08-11-2008, 04:39 PM

Is there a way to do that with Qt? ;/

tredegar · 08-12-2008, 02:09 AM

Take a look at kdialog
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...y.html#kdialog