On Friday 23 March 2007 23:49, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 10:43pm on Friday, March 23, 2007 (UK time), Nigel Henry scrawled: > > The question is as in the subject line. > > > > Is it possible to set more than one command on a desktop launcher? For > > example, you have a music app and want to play a few bars of music as the > > app is launching when you click on the icon. Is that possible? > > One way would be to create a short shell script to play a wav file with > the "play" command, then to launch the application that was required. > > E.g. > > #!/bin/bash > play /path/to/some/file.wav > firefox > > Then setup a desktop icon to run this shell script. > > Steve I'll come back to you tomorrow on this, as it's getting a bit late. Playing the .wav/.ogg works ok using play, but I'm not sure how to set up the shellscript to start playing the .wav, then launch the app. Nigel.
