Ubuntu :: Application Launcher Shortcut To Open Terminal And Execute A Command
Jan 15, 2010
I'm having Ubuntu Kramic Koala and i want to create a custom application launcher on the panel so when it is clicked it should open a terminal window and run the following command and then show the output for 5 secs and then closes the terminal... how can i do this?
Code:
cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode && sleep 5
the above command is what i want to be executed at time of running the custom application launcher. if i paste the command in a terminal, it will show the output for 5 secs and then terminates... that's almost what i want. what i exactly want is that, i want it to work like when i click on the shortcut launcher, it should open a terminal and then exectues that command, show the output for 5 sec, pause, and then exits the teriminal.
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I have created .NET 2.0 windows application setup with MySQL database on the XP and I have installed same setup on the Ubuntu. Right now full setup of my windows application (Desktop application) using WINE installed successfully but I'm facing one major problem. but when I'm trying to open my application using shortcut from desktop its not opening.
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I would like to make a keyboard shortcut to execute the following command:
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I realise that most of you will probably go "duh, that's simple" or something similar, but I am extremely new to ubuntu, and dont know my way around yet.
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1. i have tried with 755 and 777 permission 2. i have tried "home/fullpath/tet" 3. i have tried "/tet" 4. i have tried "./home/fullpath/tet"
but above all commands are failed. to run this execute file
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I have the partitions and discs i want to access mounted. they are: External Drive (/dev/sdc1) Storage (/dev/sdb1) Windows (/dev/sda2)
I tried to open them in terminal, /media/storage: no such file or directory; /dev/sdc1: Permission denied; open /media/storage or /dev/sdc1 Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console; se7en@PC:~$ nautilus /media/storage or nautilus /dev/sdc1 .....
Along with a pop-up saying 'the location is not a folder'.
