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Can I create a desktop icon that runs a shell command?

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3lusive

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Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 2:15am

Can I create a desktop icon that runs a shell command?

I want to make icons on the desktop that runs a shell script or shell command....when I do this it does the hourglass spin and tries to load the app .... I just want to click an icon and have it run the non-GUI, non-KDE shell command(s), not have think its launching a GUI KDE app...

thanks for your assistance!
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Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 4:50am

could you perhaps provide an example?

are you saying that you want to run a command through the CLI (command line interface) instead of launching a GUI?
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Wednesday, December 31st 2003, 2:43pm

Just to make sure I understood you right...

You want to start a console-based IRC client (just an example!) but you don't want to have to press ALT+F2, to type "konsole" and then to type the name of the start script for your IRC client.
Instead you want to creat an icon on your desktop that executes the steps mentioned above automagically whenever you click on it - right?
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Friday, January 2nd 2004, 8:30am

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Just to make sure I understood you right...

You want to start a console-based IRC client (just an example!) but you don't want to have to press ALT+F2, to type "konsole" and then to type the name of the start script for your IRC client.
Instead you want to creat an icon on your desktop that executes the steps mentioned above automagically whenever you click on it - right?


Yes you can as I do that too, all you have to do is click on one of the settings saying run in shell or command (I can't remeber exacly what it is from the top of my head) but you should do that when you create the link to a application. :D
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Sunday, January 4th 2004, 8:59pm

You can tell the shortcut what command(s) to run in the execute tab of its properties window.
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