Okay to get tvout working on my laptop I have to run a command so anyways I made a little script : #!/bin/bash echo 6 > /proc/acpi/asus/disp that works fine if I \sh tv.sh in a terminal. so anyways I was wanting to add a desktop icon to make this work but can't figure out how to get it going. can anyone give me a hand with this. cheers Haldor