Running shell scipts from GNOME

[Mostafa Z. Afgani]

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Ian Puleston wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 03:21 +0200, Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
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>>Ian Puleston wrote:
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>>>Thanks, but "Ask Each Time" is already selected. Just to be clear, the
>>>problem is not that I do or don't want it to run in a terminal window -
>>>the problem is that it should be running in a terminal window but
>>>instead just times out displaying the hour-glass (with the error message
>>>on the console).
>>
>>Well .. it works for me .. (opens a terminal and waits for 'Enter'). You
>>must have some config issue somewhere ..
>>
>>When you double click, does it give you the options (to run in a
>>terminal / run / display)?
>>
>>- -M
> 
> 
> Nope - I get nothing back, just the spinning hourglass. If I right-click
> and select Open with EMACS that works OK. However, after a little bit of
> playing with it:
> 
> 1. If the file has a ".sh" extension or begins with the line "#!/bin/sh
> -f" then Nautilus recognizes it as a shell script and changes the icon
> to 3 cog wheels. Then if I double-click it I just get the hourglass.
> 
> 2. If I rename the file to remove the ".sh" extension and delete that
> first line, then the icon changes to the one for a plain text file. Then
> if I double-click it I get the run or display dialog, and if I select
> Run in Terminal it works OK.

That's weird .. works for me even with .sh and #!/bin/sh -f

> 
> I took a look in Bugzilla and don't see anything obvious for this. I
> guess I should submit one.

Dumb question .. do you have all the updates to FC3?

> 
> Ian

- -M
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