Can you click on a desktop icon and play a .wav as well as starting the app?

Nigel Henry cave.dnb at tiscali.fr
Sat Mar 24 00:05:57 UTC 2007


On Friday 23 March 2007 23:49, Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 10:43pm on Friday, March 23, 2007 (UK time), Nigel Henry scrawled:
> > The question is as in the subject line.
> >
> > Is it possible to set more than one command on a desktop launcher? For
> > example, you have a music app and want to play a few bars of music as the
> > app is launching when you click on the icon. Is that possible?
>
> One way would be to create a short shell script to play a wav file with
> the "play" command, then to launch the application that was required.
>
> E.g.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> play /path/to/some/file.wav
> firefox
>
> Then setup a desktop icon to run this shell script.
>
> Steve

I'll come back to you tomorrow on this, as it's getting a bit late. Playing 
the .wav/.ogg works ok using play, but I'm not sure how to set up the 
shellscript to start playing the .wav, then launch the app.

Nigel.





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