launching an application from Nautilus
Les
hlhowell at pacbell.net
Thu Apr 17 01:40:29 UTC 2008
HI, everyone,
I have an application that is launched by a shell command that accepts
an application specific file as an argument to set up its environment
and actions. What I want to do is click on the application specific
file and have nautilus call up the appropriate script with that
application as the argument.
What I have done so far is to modify the script from being one per
application file to a generic one accepting an argument. I have placed
it in a path directory and so now I can from the location of the
argument file launch it. The application in this case is Croquet
Cobalt.
My script for now is in a local directory called "bin". And it works
from a terminal. I can be in the Cobalt home directory and type the
command:
cobalt.sh cobalt.1.image
And the script runs, the Croquet environment as modified by Cobalt
comes up and life is good.
There are other images, and I can call them up as well:
cobalt.sh CrusoeWeb.image
Same result. Now I want to use Nautilus to call up the cobalt
environment when I click on a ".image" file. So I pick a .image file in
nautilus, and edit the properties:
>custom command
Open with command:
cobalt.sh
Save it and check the properties and sure enough cobalt.sh appears
there. However when I click on the designated image file, nothing
happens.
No error message, no opening of the file, absolutely nothing.
So, what have I done wrong, and its OK to think I'm stupid, I probably
overlooked something very dumb.
Regards,
Les H
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