Bug#760615: general: Shell scripts do not execute in gui.
Hello Kenji,
On 6.9.2014 Kenji Takashima wrote:
I have been trying to execute multiple shell scripts in gui with no
avail. The scripts succesfully executed in a terminal, however in the
gui, the files would not execute when clicked on, and, when
right-clicked, did not have a "run" option. Other types of executables
have worked, though I have not tested that many.
In my GUI scripts *can* be executed by double clicking! But maybe
my "GUI" is not the same as your GUI? That's why o it would be good if you
could tell us, what "GUI" that GUI of yours is? What is the name of the
programm/application, in which you are trying to execute the script?
My GUI is XFCE and in XFCE I open the "Thunar" file browser. I double-
click a script in Thunar, but nothing happens. That is because usually
scripts write to the "standard out" channel. If you do not run a script in
a terminal, then it does not have a "standard out" channel. That's why
you will not seem anything happen when the script is executed.
In order to veryfiy that Thunar actually *does* execute a script when I
double-click it I did the following, which you can do as well:
Open a terminal and in the terminal write the following:
cd /tmp
echo "#!/bin/sh" > foobar
echo "touch foobar.touched" >> foobar
chmod +x foobar
Now doublecklick that script. Has the file "foobar.touched" been created
on your machine?
Greets,
*t
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