Re: Desktop Executable

Hi Maxwell,

  it has been a while I was running KDE, but you can make a new desktop icon, or menu item, by using the Menu Editor from the KDe startup menu. You can specify in the menu item which command, in which directory, etc should be executed. Then you can drag this command from the menu onto the desktop.

Cheers, Fons.

Maxwell Grady wrote:
> I am running Scientific Linux with a KDE desktop
>
> I would like to create an executable on my desktop that will navigate to a certain directory and open root from that directory
>
> ie. when I need to get root going for my research I normally do the following:
> open terminal
> cd /media/my_externaldrive_name
> /opt/root/bin/root
>
> then I proceed to use root for whatever I'm doing.
>
> So what I am asking is:
> How do I go about making a script to execute those commands, one that could be placed on the desktop and merely double clicked whenever I need to get root going?
>
> Thanks all,
> Max Grady, Loyola U. of Chicago
>
>
>

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