Create a shortcut for a program that launches in terminal

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#1

I’d like to create a launcher for ParaView that requires a terminal shell in order to launch. It is just a pain having to enter the couple of lines to launch it from Konsole.

cd /home/user/Document/ParaView(version)/bin
./paraview

Lemme know what you think. I’d just like to add something to the quick launch panel.

#2

So you did not mention your desktop that you use. In KDE you can copy this into a text editor and save it in your /home/username/Desktop folder when using Folder View as the file ParaView.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=./paraview
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=exec
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=ParaView
Name=ParaView
Path=/home/user/Document/ParaView(version)/bin
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=true
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=none
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
X-SuSE-translate=true

You mark it executable with the terminal command:

chmod +x ~/Desktop/ParaView.desktop

You could also create a bash script file to do this:

#!/bin/bash

#: Title       : /home/thomasrepetti/bin/pf
#: Date Created: Sat Jun 11 09:26:13 CDT 2011
#: Last Edit   : Sat Jun 11 09:26:13 CDT 2011
#: Author      : thomasrepetti
#: Version     : 1.00
#: Description : 
#: Options     : 

cd /home/user/Document/ParaView(version)/bin

./paraview

exit 0
# End Of Script

Copy the above file into a text editor and save the file as pf in your ~/bin folder (/home/username/bin/pf):

To mark the bash script file executable run the terminal command:

chmod +x ~/bin/pf

Then, to run pf, open a terminal session and type the command:


pf

Perhaps something here might be useful.

Thank You,