how do I execute a bin.jar file?

[83mercedes]

Found a neat money manager called jgnash, written in java??

To execute the program, called "jgnash_bin.jar"

The author told me to do

java -jar jgnash_bin.jar

Well, that works fine, but it is a little awkward to do all that every time I want to run that...

is there a way to make a script or somthing to put on my desktop to do that?

I tried making a link to application on my desktop, using the above command, but when I clicked on it, it said "couldn't find java"

Please, any ideas?

Thanks.

[Cannonfodder]

check out this tutorial on the alias command. You can create a short command that is equivilent to what you are typing. Not sure why your desktop shortcut didn't work.

 

e.g. alias mmm='java -jar bin.jar'

 

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/basics/bshell6.html

 

The entire web site is good reading if you want to get into linux a bit more.

[83mercedes]

Thanks for that, I will have to experiment some more I see.

[83mercedes]

I don't know why, but I deleted the non-working 'link to application' on my desktop, made a new one, and now it works.

I obviously don't know what the hell I'm doing.

Thanks, cannonfodder. :roll:

[Cannonfodder]

You probably did something different. Check out that tutorial from the first page and spend an afternoon going through it. It clears up a lot of issues and you can start enjoying linux more from a console level. The only thing I use my desktop for is the menu bar. I don't usually use the file browser.