Re: Desktop Executable

Hi Maxwell,

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 09:37 +0200, Fons Rademakers wrote:
> 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.

KDE/GNOME/Xcfe all adhere to the Desktop standard. That means, that you can make a .desktop file and have that work on all desktops.

If you make a script like

        #!/bin/sh 
        

    dir=$1 ; shift     

    if test "x$dir" = "x" ; then exit 1 ; fi     if test ! -d $dir ; then exit 2 ; fi

    (cd $dir && /opt/root/bin/root $@)

and put that in say ~/bin/dir_root.sh and make a desktop file like

        [Desktop Entry]
        Name=ROOT on /media/my_externaldrive_name
        GenericName=ROOT on /media/my_externaldrive_name
        Comment=ROOT's Object Oriented Technologies
        Exec=~/bin/dir_root.sh /media/my_externaldrive_name %F
        Icon=root-system-bin.png
        Categories=Development;Science;Physics;NumericalAnalysis;
        MimeType=application/x-root
        Terminal=true
        Type=Application
        StartupNotify=false
        

You can put that in say ~/Desktop/RootOnMedia.desktop

That's it.

Yours,

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