On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:02:33PM +0100 or thereabouts, Esther Parrilla Endrino wrote: > Hi all, > > I have created a desktop icon in my $HOME/.gnome-desktop folder that > launches a bash shell script, the code inside the *.desktop file is > something like: > > [Desktop Entry] > Name=dummy > Comment=dummy Script > Exec=/home/foo/script.sh > Type=Application > > When I double click the icon in my desktop it does nothing! > I have tried too to create the icon not manually but using the desktop > options to create a new launcher and it does not work either... > > Is not possible to launch scripts from de Gnome desktop icons? Just > binary executable files such as /usr/bin/mozilla? You can certainly launch scripts from panel launchers. I have not tried from desktop icons. But panel launchers: yes. I used to do this a lot. But does your script contain relative pathnames? If so: Exec=cd /home/foo; ./script.sh I did something like this when I was playing with Mozilla nightlies which were installed somewhere not on my path. "/path/to/directory/script.sh" didn't work. "cd /path/to/directory; ./script.sh" did. Except that I don't remember whether I used a ; or a && or put the whole lot into () marks. You may have to play around with that aspect. But it was something like that :) Telsa _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
