thanks stephen

the gtk pgm  that does the trick:

  gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new

if you don't have the program, download using this using std apt get:

 sudo apt-get install gnome-panel

david

thanks again


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/141229/how-to-add-a-shell-script-to-launcher-as-shortcut
>
> First hit via google. But the os and window manager you are using would be
> helpful.
>
>
> On Monday, December 16, 2013, wrote:
>
>> Can In see the script?
>> I execute shell scripts from GUIs all day long...
>> ET
>>
>>
>> David Lopez writes:
>>
>>> oh wise men
>>> have an executable bash script.
>>> can execute it using terminal window - no issues.
>>> when i copy the script from the bin dir to desktop, the execute it from
>>> there by
>>> double clicking on the file name (with a made up icon), it displays
>>> buttons:
>>>   a) run in terminal
>>>   b) run
>>>   c) display
>>>   d) cancel
>>> using either a) or b) above, the program terminates just after a few
>>> bytes
>>> of output.
>>> tried it several times. even tried it when an empty terminal was on the
>>> screen.
>>> any ideas?
>>> david
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