[Cialug] icon+bash srcipt

[Scott Yates]

Do you mean to have a pipe symbol after the su command?


On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Dan Hockey <icepuck3k at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> --- On Fri, 3/29/13, Don Ellis <don.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Don Ellis <don.ellis at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] icon+bash srcipt
> > To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> > Date: Friday, March 29, 2013, 7:11 PM
> > I searched for 'xfce launcher' and
> > came up with this (further searches may
> > help you if this is too old). Posted in 2006; may be current
> > or not. Gnome
> > seems to have removed the launcher features I'm accustomed
> > to in previous
> > releases, though Debian 6.0's Gnome still has it. I keep
> > trying in
> > different distros, but they seem to have set it up in a way
> > that is much
> > more obvious to those who haven't been used to doing it
> > another way (while
> > removing the old way so we won't be confused)...
> >
> >     http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=200976
>
> The link was enough to help figure out how squeeze+xfce does things, but
> I'm still trying to figure out how to change directories with the script.
> ------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
>
> cd /home/debian/SimpleIDE-0-7-2
> su | ./simpleide
> ------------------------------------------------
> su works but fails after entering the password because it didn't change
> dirs.
>
> -dan
>
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Dan Hockey <icepuck3k at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > In debian squeeze is there a way to tie a desktop(xfce)
> > icon with a bash
> > > script? This is for a gui program that has to be
> > started from the command
> > > line with su permissions.
> > > -dan
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