way to *click* launch apps
 

Does anybody know of a way besides a kde "Link to application" to launch a shell script by clicking on somehthing, thanks,

slackwarebilly

How about a GNOME link to application? ;)

I don't think I'm sure what you're asking.

confirm
 

is it true that you can set a BASH script executable and just click to launch?

slackwarebilly?:confused:

You can create a launcher in Gnome that launches the terminal then executes a command. See man gnome-terminal (or man xterm if you prefer). They both have switches to execute code after loading.

As an example, I have shortcuts to ssh to all of my servers. The command looks like this:The geometry stuff makes the window bigger since I find the gnome-terminal default size a bit puny.

I don't use gnome
 

Any idea how to do it across all distro's?

question will this work...

making a shellscript executable seems to work, but ti is silent.

can I launch a console with with the script and then execute coomands automatically in that console?

thanks,

slackwarebilly :)

Stop, deep breath, and tell us what you are trying to do exactly...

If you have a running shell script, and you want to open a terminal and do something in it, then here's how:
However if someone runs that from outside X it'll crap out cause is won't be able to find the display. If you want to make a script executable, just chmod it:
However, with default permissions, most file managers won't run it if double-clicked as that would be a great way to distribute malicious code. Konqueror and Nautilus will both as to Run or Display in a text editor. ROX won't do anything if you have made an association with the mime type.

thanks
 

I already know the chmod stuff, and it's not something in particular I'm talking about it's a program I'm developing with some other poeple in the community. What about launching a binary with a click.. you know in kde it looks like a gear (is an executable file)... and to be specific, it is a binary compiled by a C++ script..

thanks all, I'll try the xterm thing

slackwarebilly :)

In KDE, as far as I know, the executable does what you expect it to simply because Konqueror is configured to do that. There's no way to say that a file is going to do what you want when it's clicked by someone else on another system, using a different configuration and possibly a different file manager. The best you can do is make it executable and leave it up to the user to decide how to launch it.

I'll ask the guys at autopackage, they do it... somehow
 

thanks all,

slackwarebilly :D

autopackages are simply shell scripts that are made +x. Internally, if there is no tty associated then we re-exec the script inside a terminal emulator. Various heuristics are used to determine whether to run xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole or something else. Once the bootstrap procedure has been completed (ie, autopackage is installed) then a fully graphical frontend is available and the shell scripts invoke that instead.

Simple, really.

thx,
 

So we just write a script to find the term they are using, thanks,

slackwarebilly :D