Hello,

I would like to run a simple shell script by clicking on an item in the KDE start menu.

For example:
i make the script "test" which has the line echo "hello world".

Using the graphical interface i add an item to the start menu and assign the proper command (ie /home/root/test).

If i click the item, the script executes, but the problem is that the shell exits immediately.

I tried different things, for example using "/home/root/test $". I also tried getting the users input, but the scripts then exists after the user types someting...

Can anyone help me out?
Many thanks in advance!

Many people posting prob here try to hide wat really they want to do bc of Interllect propert, u need to be open. I guess u want to start some app auto on startup of Lin then just edit /etc/inittab adding it there.

Sounds like you need a terminal to open and the print hello world in it and then remain open?

For command line do something like

aterm -e /home/root/test

and then put the command 'read' in your test script ie

echo "Hello World"
read

This will keep terminal open till you press enter. Substitute aterm for whichever terminal you use.

note -e switch causes terminal to open and execute follwing command. I don't know if it's the same switch for all terms but it works for aterm, xterm and rxvt

Also you must have correct permissions to execute anything in /home/root/ so chown username it, or are you running kde as root (not a good idea)

The complete story is that i am working on a remastered knoppix. There will be some security tools implemented (most of them commandline based).

I want the user to be able to start these tools from the start menu.

For example i want to start NMAP from the KDE start menu:

- the user clicks on the item
- terminal opens, showing a brief text "this is nmap, blablabla, most common parameters are blablabla"
- terminal remains open so the user can use nmap

Thats it basically .

Using 'read' in the scripts indeed causes the terminal to remain open, but if anything is typed by the user, and enter is hit, the terminal closes again...

Hope this gives you more information