Konqueror & bash scripts - no terminal window

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#1

Hello all,

we are using SLES 10 SP2 and KDE in our company, and I have this annoying little problem with Konqueror: Whenever I start a shell script (bash, python, etc.) with the Konqueror, it will be executed … but without any indication!

So basically for the user “nothing” happens. Although the script is executed in the background.

I would like that a terminal window is opened if I click on the script, so that I have a visual feedback. Is that possible?

Thanks for any ideas!
Axel.

#2

> Thanks for any ideas!

see here: http://tinyurl.com/lylhho

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goldie

#3

When you start something from Konqueror, of course the only thing that starts is the script. You could change the srcipt, so it starts Konsole, with that what was the original script as the command to execute. Like:

konsole -e /path/to/script

You could also create icons on the desktop or in the panel that call konsole with a command (your script) to execute.

IMHO is basic Unix/Linux/KDE, thus independent from the fact that you use SLES and we openSUSE :slight_smile:

#4

yep, that’s what I hoped - that this is basic Linux only :wink: .

BUT. I use those scripts from the command line. My colleagues use them from Konqueror. So I would like to reconfigure the Konqueror so that it opens a terminal window on bash scripts.

Is that possible, maybe?

#5

Well, I tried a few things.

  1. I generated a script and gave it a name ending in a (more or less unique) ending, e.g. *.bik *(meaning bash-in-konsole to me). (Some people call this an extension, but that may let people think that it is like the extention on MS file systems, which it is not).

  2. I went to Konqueror > Configuration > Configure Konqueror > Fileassosiations (the real terms might differ, I have a Dutch translation here and try to translate back). I clicked Add. It asks for a group and I choose text (imo it does not matter which you choose, but it seems appropriate). It asks for a typename, choose what you like, e.g. bashinkons.

  3. The new entry is shown at the right. Add a pattern '.bik. Add an application: “konsole”. In the 'Embedding" tab choose “open in external …” and uncheck “ask for store on disk”.
    Back to the General tab and select the “konsole” you just entered in the lower field and click “Change”. In the new window go to the appplication tab and fill in the command “konsole -e”. Finish everythhing.

Now when you click a file ending in .bik, Konqui will open a console with the application running inside. My testscript is test.bik:

#!/bin/bash
echo "bik-test"
read A

Without the read the konsole window will only flash before it finishes.

So I think I did it. But you have to change all the names of the scripts wich are to be run thus. But there mus be a method to tell Konqui what to do.

Alternative is what I told you earlier. In the place where they click use:

konsole -e /path/to/script

and you just type

path/to/script

Feel free to ask when unclear.

#6

super, thanks a lot! I will try that and if you don’t hear from me again I am happy :slight_smile: .

thanks a lot!