johnnyv Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 hi i have several shell scripts that run fine but i want to be able to run them via an application link on my kde desktop. eg i want a link on my desktop that when clicked opens up a terminal window and runs the script inside that terminal i tried setting up a normal link to application in kde but i keep getting: "Service '/home/john/Desktop/run script' is malformatted." any help would be appreciated thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted February 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 Never mind i just have to logout of KDE and then back on and it started working Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted February 27, 2003 Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 I was gonna suggest make the application link to xterm -e /this/is/my/script Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted February 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 hey thats what i was looking for cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted February 27, 2003 Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 i have not used kde for a long time but you could have just rightclicked on a desktop, create a shortcut, enter the target app/script and then just check the show terminal checkbox or something. same effect but the xterm route is faster if you are familiar with cli. :#: ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted February 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 i have not used kde for a long time but you could have just rightclicked on a desktop, create a shortcut, enter the target app/script and then just check the show terminal checkbox or something. same effect but the xterm route is faster if you are familiar with cli. :#: ciao! Thats how it should work, it didn't. Once i restarted KDE it did but not before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted February 27, 2003 Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 hmmn. this is getting scary. KDE is behaving more like windows everyday. :sad: :#: ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted February 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 hmmn. this is getting scary. KDE is behaving more like windows everyday. :sad: :#: ciao! well not totally the newest kde 3.1 seems faster than 3.0 that is the exact opposite of windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted February 28, 2003 Report Share Posted February 28, 2003 hahaha, i was referring to the restarting bit. :#: but at least the execution is not the same. :) ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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