On Monday 13 November 2006 19:39, Nigel Henry wrote: > I have a Java app, "Breakage" a drum sequencer. To start it in Konsole, > first I have to cd to Breakage-22b, which is the folder in /home/user > containing the .jar file for the drum sequencer. So the procedure is. > > $ cd Breakage-22b > Breakage-22b $ /usr/local/java/bin/java -jar Breakage2.jar > > This starts the java app ok, but is there a way to run this from a link to > application on the desktop? > > It appears that cd'ing to the directory containing the .jar file is > necessary before running the command /usr/local/java/bin/java -jar > Breakage2.jar When you create a "link to program" through the desktop's context menu, there is an option to set the application's working directory. Try setting it to /home/user/Breakage-22b or whatever the correct directory is If this doesn't work, you can create a small starter script and use it as the program instead. The script should look like this #!/bin/sh cd /home/user/Breakage-22b /usr/local/bin/java -jar Breakage2.jar It needs to be executable (executable flag set), but since you can specify the full path when creating the link you can put it anywhere. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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