Re: launching apps from the menu
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:29:04 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:12:26 +0100, Richard Bown wrote:
>
> > The launcher in the menu points to this script:-
>
> (...)
>
> > From the CLI it works fine from any location and fails to run when
> > started from the menu.
>
> It fails? Why do you think it fails?
>
> I mean, does the python script launches a GUI based program, runs a
> daemon/service in background or takes any visible action?
>
> > file permissions are :-
> > -rwxrwxrwx 1 richard richard 779 Oct
> >
> > so anyone and their dog can run it, what have I missed ?, I done it many
> > time on other distros.
>
> I don't see anything wrong with your script :-?
>
> Let's see (simplified sample):
>
> sm01@stt008:~/Desktop$ cat test.sh
> #! /bin/bash
> cd /home/sm01/Desktop
> python test.py
>
> sm01@stt008:~/Desktop$ cat test.py
> #!/usr/bin/python
> a = open("/home/sm01/Desktop/sample.txt", "w")
> a.write("sampe text\n")
>
> And the launcher file looks like:
>
> sm01@stt008:~/Desktop$ cat tessto.desktop
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=tessto
> Type=Application
> Terminal=false
> Icon[es_ES]=gnome-panel-launcher
> Exec=/home/sm01/Desktop/test.sh
> Name[es_ES]=tessto
> Icon=gnome-panel-launcher
> GenericName[es_ES]=
>
> After double-clicking on the launcher, the small python script is run and
> the file (which was not present before running it) is created with the
> right content which means the script executes successfully when called
> from the launcher:
>
> sm01@stt008:~/Desktop$ cat sample.txt
> sampe text
>
> Greetings,
>
Thanks , that helps
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Best wishes / 73
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Richard Bown
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