[Wolves] help please fonts of knowledge.

[Joe Wrigley]

David Morley wrote:
> I want to cheat a bit.  (something I'm sure most people already know
> about.)  Basically what I want to do is (in Dapper) be able to double
> click on an item and have it run a shell script but show it's
> progress.  An example of this would be double clicking on an mp3 and
> having ffmpeg or oggenc turn it into an ogg file, but I want to make
> sure it runs and where it puts the file.  This is why I need your
> help.
> 
> Basically what the problem is, is you used to have a tick box to run a
> command in a shell/terminal but now in Dapper that tick box isn't
> there.  Is there one line I can type in to do the same thing? (open up
> a shell and run the command in it)
> 

xterm -e "command to run"

or gnome-terminal -e "command to run"

not sure about konsole

Hope that helps,

Joe