[CoLoCo] Problems Creating Custom Panel Launcher For CLI Application

[Darrin Goodman]

bash -c "nmap --help"


Nothing happens when I try that command.  Thank you though.  Other
suggestions?
Thanks!
-Darrin



On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Andrew <keen101 at gmail.com> wrote:

> try this:
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> bash -c "nmap --help"
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> -Andrew
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> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Darrin Goodman <darrin.goodman at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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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