[CoLoCo] Problems Creating Custom Panel Launcher For CLI Application

[Andrew]

try this:


bash -c "nmap --help"



-Andrew



On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Darrin Goodman <darrin.goodman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Greetings!  I have a question about creating a custom application launcher
> in Ubuntu.
>
> So most of us are probably fairly well experienced with creating launchers
> in the Gnome panel that allow us to quickly launch our favorite and most
> used applications.  What about when you wish to launch a command line
> application and have the terminal stay open and active, even after the
> command has executed?
>
> For instance, let's say that I am trying to launch the following command:
> $ nmap --help
>
> I've been trying to create a panel launcher that will open up
> gnome-terminal and execute the command "nmap --help".  I can either get
> gnome-terminal to open and the command is not executed, or nothing at all
> will happen.
>
> gnome-terminal nmap --help
>
>
> I've looked at the following two guides on creating panel launchers:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/user-guide/C/launchers.html
>
> http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/launchers-properties.html.en
>
> Also, I have tried shearn89's suggestion of creating an alternate
> gnome-terminal profile, etc.:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=540353
>
> gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=XXXXXX -e nmap --help
>
>
> So far, this has given me the best results; however, only a portion of the
> nmap help is displayed, and then the terminal is in a locked state (can't
> type or do anything to the terminal other than close it).
>
> Still searching for a valid solution.  Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> - Darrin
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