At 22:49 on 23 Mar 2007, Steve Searle <steve(a)stevesearle.com> wrote:
Around 10:43pm on Friday, March 23, 2007 (UK time), Nigel Henry
scrawled:
> 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
Or perhaps a slight improvement:
#!/bin/bash
play /path/to/some/file.wav &
exec firefox
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Mark Knoop