How do I turn a terminal command into a desktop icon?

Hi there.

I would like to launch an application:
/usr/share/processing-0148/./processing

From the acer desktop with an icon. Can someone tell me how to do that?

thanks
Christian

 

Hi,

Create a file using your favored text editor and input the following text:

#! /bin/bash

mousepad

exit 0

Then in thunar right click on the file and under 'properties' select permissions and choose for the file to be executable. I have no idea how to change the default file icon though.

All the best, will103

 

So do we save this text file some place?
What do we call it?
Where do we save it?
Is there a space between ! and / in the first line?
Is this file 3 lines of text or are there other instructions?
How does this relate to terminal command?

Thank you
mac

 

I wanna know this too!

Anyone?

 

Can we start again - I'm not quite sure what the previous set of instructions was meant to achieve.

Three questions first:

• are you using the standard Acer desktop or the advanced one? [/*:m:93lamxyz]
• Where has this program you want to execute come from? (If it's been installed from a package there is probably already a 'desktop' file we can use, if not we'll have to create one)[/*:m:93lamxyz]
• Have you got a suitable icon ready?[/*:m:93lamxyz]

 

Well, in my case I have installed a windows program, and I like to run it in Wine. (yes acer's default (sort of))
I have made a desktop-file and aligned an icon for it and put the icon in the correct bin in the desktop, everything's fine but it can't execute the command:

Code:

sudo wine "C:\Program Files\Spotify\spotify.exe"

I think I have to execute a file (shell script?) with the command in it rather then the command itself?

Happy for help.

 

So we're talking the basic desktop, and you've edited the group-app.xml file to change the icons etc...

What does your .desktop file say on the 'Exec=' line? (And why do you need sudo to run this?)

Having just looked at the spec for desktop files including highly special (to Linux) things like backslashes, I think the Exec line should be:

Code:

Exec=wine "C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Spotify\\\\spotify.exe"

(Yes, that's four backslashes each time. I assume that wine is in your standard $PATH: that is, if you just run the command 'wine' from any terminal prompt, you get a brief message about how to use wine).

 

When I try the desktop-file without the sudo the terminal says: /home/user/.wine is not owned by you.

Same problem, wine is not owned by me, I tried sudo and got the message

and that is after I changed to the four backslashes...

If I just type wine "C:\Program Files\Spotify\spotify.exe" in a terminal window the program starts without any hassle.

So, right now I have the four slashes command on my Exec-line. :?

 

Sounds like you may first have run the wine config as root. Try making the .wine directory yours:

Code:

sudo chown -R user:user /home/user/.wine

and see if that helps.

 

The diroctory does'nt seem to belong to me now either...

Should the program run in terminal?

my desktop-file:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=spotify
Comment=Spotify
Exec=wine "C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Spotify\\\\spotify.exe"
Icon=spotify
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Categories=Network;Application;
GenericName=Spotify

 

If you've run the command above, it should belong to you. Start a terminal and do

Code:

ls -l .wine

If it doesn't belong to you, we need to get that sorted first.

 

My result:

Code:

[user@localhost ~]$ ls -l .wine
total 488
drwxrwxrwx 2 user user   4096 2008-12-14 20:09 dosdevices
drwxrwxrwx 4 user user   4096 2008-12-14 20:09 drive_c
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 457658 2008-12-14 23:08 system.reg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user   2346 2008-12-14 23:08 userdef.reg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user  22548 2008-12-14 23:08 user.reg

 

OK, so thye do belong to you!

Now in your desktop file, let's try two thing:

First, it may well not need the quotes. Try taking them out and see if that helps.

If not, try changing 'terminal' to true. That should at least give us a terminal with any error messages in it.

If all that doesn't work, the final try will be to set up a script to run the program, and call that from the desktop file instead, but that is a long way round!

 

Terminal still tells me I'm not the owner. =/
When I sudo without the quotes it now halt on the space in Program Files, telling med it cant find 'C:\Program'

When i run the file with terminal as true, a terminalwindows pops up and disapears, when I try to start the file from a terminal window, I get the message that the file dos'nt exist or i have not the permission to the file.

I appriciate you'r help!

 

OK, so what exactly is the error it gives?

(We'll crack this yet....!)

 

With sudo in the exec

Code:

wine: cannot find 'C:\Program Files\Spotify\spotify.exe'

Without the sudo in exec

Code:

wine: /home/user/.wine is not owned by you

 

Hmm. On the ownership side still, can you post part of the result of

Code:

ls -la

in a terminal? The only line I'm interested in is the one for the .wine directory, which should look something along the lines of

Code:

drwxr-xr-x  3 user user    4096 2008-09-02 23:42 .vlc

(That's obviously my .vlc directory - I haven't installed wine on the One).

 

There I have full rights.

Code:

drwxrwxrwx  4 user user  4096 2008-12-16 16:08 .wine

 

This is wierd indeed.

I'm wondering whether the best thing is to junk the wine setup and recofigure wine. This may mean you then have to reinstall your spotify program too..

To junk & reconfigure, delete the .wine directory and run the configuration utility *as yourself, not root*:

Code:

rm -rF .wine
winecfg

If the first command there (the deletion) fails wsith complaints anbout permissions or ownership, use sudo before it to force it as root.

Running winecfg as yourself should create all the wine setup you need to run it as yourself, not as root.

 

Same message in terminal. /home/user/.wine is not owned by you.

u think it has to do with how i am accessing the file? I go to terminal

Code:

sudo thunar /usr/share/applications

i does'nt know any other way to access that folder.

when I try to run the program from it's desktop icon nothing at all happens.

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