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creating useful launchers

Hey all,

I'm trying to figure out how to make scripts or launchers do my bidding.
basically I'd like to have an icon i can click on to run commands or more specifically lists of commands. most of these would require sudo privileges. One of the things I'd like to do is have a button "turn on" another X server which would use ssh and the -X switch to login to an X server on another computer on my LAN.

currently what I have to do to accomplish this is:

switch to tty2 and:

Code:

X :1

now this renders this tty stuck running 2nd x server

switch to tty1 and:

Code:

xterm -display :1

this opens up a terminal in the x server for me to execute the next command

Code:

ssh -X myuser@192.168.1.5

and then:

Code:

gnome-session

This sets up a fully functional remote gnome session on my 2nd xserver, which is pretty nice. There are probably better ways to do this, but this is what I figured out, any improvements would be appreciated.

now for the purpose of this post, I'd like to know how to automate this into a single click of a script or launcher of sorts. Is this possible? how would I configure my local gnome session to prompt me for passwords the way everything else does (with the pretty little password dialog).

Thanks for reading, and hopefully posting...

Well, you can make a simple sh script. Basically, all you do is list the commands you want to execute in a file since you say you're using Gnome, I'll assume you have gksduo or gksu, the programs that do the password asking. To figure out which you have, open a terminal, type them in, and see which doesn't complain about not existing.

Then, with the passwords, your script should look kinda like this:

Code:

gksu firstCommand && secondCommand && thirdComand

---OR IF YOU HAVE GKSUDO---

gksudo firstCommand && secondCommand && thirdComand

Then, you can just add a normal launcher to the gnome toolbar, and where it asks for the executable location, pass it your script