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Dave Lilley
okay I've got 2 fxruby programs and they run from the command line okay
but now I want to have it executed from the KDE desktop.
things I'd tried
1. copy konsole (terminal) to the desktop and change settings so that a
script would run.
2. repeat for 2nd program.
PROBLEM they both share 1 .desktop config settings file.
solved this by copying and renaming the .desktop file
now I have myscript1.desktop file and myscript2.desktop file each
pointing to their own directories but they wont work!! From the file
manager I can right mouse click them and see from the pop-up sub menu
Open-with the 2 config files and they work there but this is a poor
second.
PROBLEM
these programs would not execute/launch from the desktop icons!!
SOLUTION?
Found that my moving the .desktop files from
/home/user/.local/share/applications
to
/home/user/.local/share/applications/kde4
I get the action I want namely user clicks on the icon for ruby script
it gets executed just like a 1st class kde program.
It is by chance that it has a GUI frontend and i get the benefit of
having NO CLI console visible too so this is equivalent to the .rbw
files in windows.
Hope this helps someone down the track.
rgds,
Dave.
but now I want to have it executed from the KDE desktop.
things I'd tried
1. copy konsole (terminal) to the desktop and change settings so that a
script would run.
2. repeat for 2nd program.
PROBLEM they both share 1 .desktop config settings file.
solved this by copying and renaming the .desktop file
now I have myscript1.desktop file and myscript2.desktop file each
pointing to their own directories but they wont work!! From the file
manager I can right mouse click them and see from the pop-up sub menu
Open-with the 2 config files and they work there but this is a poor
second.
PROBLEM
these programs would not execute/launch from the desktop icons!!
SOLUTION?
Found that my moving the .desktop files from
/home/user/.local/share/applications
to
/home/user/.local/share/applications/kde4
I get the action I want namely user clicks on the icon for ruby script
it gets executed just like a 1st class kde program.
It is by chance that it has a GUI frontend and i get the benefit of
having NO CLI console visible too so this is equivalent to the .rbw
files in windows.
Hope this helps someone down the track.
rgds,
Dave.