On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 12:47 -0500, mooseranger wrote: > I tried making the script just sleep longer; that didn't help. The > script is called LOTRBFME2.sh and I ran it with 'sh LOTRBFME2.sh' - is > there a different way I should run the script that would make it as if > I manually ran it? (I'm new to this). > Does the script just run xrandr or does it run xrandr, wait 5 seconds and then start LOTR? If it does the first things may be confused by you using several shells: - first is the shell that put up your command prompt - using "sh LOTRBFME2.sh" starts a new shell to run your script - if your script starts with "#!/bin/sh" that will start a third shell - the third shell will run the script and exit, then the second shell will exit to leave you in the original shell, but any shell variables the 2nd and 3rd shells set up will be lost The second shell is always redundant: all scripts should start with "#!/bin/shell" to make sure the right 'shell' is run. This way you never need to write "sh script" to run a script from the command line. So, fix that and then try one of the following: - run a script (WITHOUT the #! line) as ". script" to run it in your original shell and follow it with "wine blahblah" to run LOTR - write and run a script looks something like: #!/bin/bash xrandr [optionds and arguments] #run xrandr sleep 5 #wait 5 secs wine blahblah #start LOTR exit not forgetting to make it executable "chmod u+x scriptname" before running it. Martin
