On Friday, September 16, 2005 @ 4:14 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: <snip>
rt clk desktoop choose create new choose link to application give a name choose permissions choose advanced permissions make user exec say ok choose application enter for command '/home/<you>/Desktop/Hello.bin' choose advanced options choose run in terminal say ok say ok
example cat Desktop/hello.bin
echo "Hello Greg" sleep 100
perms -rwx-------
note: if you do not make a 'sleep xxx' command the window will close quickly and you will not see results.
note2: why does root own 'Hello.bin'? YOU should own it. root is the supreme being on your computer. You should treat it as such.
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Thanks for the example. It works fine. At first, the shell popped open and closed so fast that I couldn't see what happened. I went back in and discovered the "Do not close when command exits" option under APPLICATION/Advanced Options/Terminal/Run in Terminal. Selecting that causes the shell to remain open after the command ends. All in all, very nice. I had earlier been able to get it to run via the "Run Command" option off of the start menu, but not from the desktop. When right-clicking on the desktop, I now see that there are basically 3 types of objects you can create there -- a folder, a file (two types, text or HTML), and various types of links. What I needed was the "Link to Application" type of link, as per your instructions. I was trying to make this work by right-clicking the document on the desktop, going to properties, and clicking the button next to "Type". It looked like it was designed to somewhat mirror a Windows system, with file types at the top and applications at the bottom. I couldn't make any headway coming from that direction, but now it would appear that was the wrong way to go about it in the first place (though I still need to play around with that some to see just what it is for). Thanks, Greg Wallace