Applications Menu items: how to make them run a script ?
Vincent Trouilliez
vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Sun Jul 20 11:54:41 UTC 2008
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:09:42 +1200
"Stuart A. Yeates" <syeates at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a couple of tricks for shell scripts:
> (a) make sure the permissions are correct (i.e. executable)
> (b) make sure you're using absolute paths
> (c) remember the the #! at the start
> (d) use verbose error handling to stdout, for debugging, at least when
> you detect something wrong
Thanks, unfortunately for me, a b and c are already satisfied :-(
as for d, I don't know how to make the applications menu "verbose", as
it just fails silently when I click on the menu item, doesn't pop up any
error message for me to look at :-/
--
Vince
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