Re: Launching a Unix or X11 Application from the Desktop or Dock
Re: Launching a Unix or X11 Application from the Desktop or Dock
- Subject: Re: Launching a Unix or X11 Application from the Desktop or Dock
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:10:22 -0700
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009, Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. wrote:
>> What is the proper way to create a desktop launcher to open a X11 app
>> or
>> run a UNIX command in Snow Leopard?
> There's many ways, but the simplest (if ugliest) is to create a shell
> script with the ".command" file extension, and set it to chmod +x.
>
> If you want to prettify it, stick it in an Automator workflow and save
> it as an app.
I used XDroplets to create a few things (vim running in an xterm for one),
but the apps created don't work on Snow Leopard saying that the generated
.app file is incomplete. I don't know enough about the internals of .app
directory or Applescript to figure out what's going on with it.
Bill
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