[Simon]

A colleague of mine has written a nice little shell script to do some stuff and he wanted to make it a double-clickable file so he could drop in his dock for quick access.

If you add the .command suffix to the file it will launch with Terminal.app. Bad because he wants it to launch with X11.

If you use Platypus it won't run the X11 stuff he calls in his script.

Basically in X11 he could open an xterm and execute his shell script altogether in one X11 application menu entry (and that actually works well), but he just really wants a dock icon.

Any suggestions? AppleScript? Is the X11 app scriptable?

[WJMoore]

Does launching his script with the open-x11 command help? ie Have the .command file run his script like: open-x11 the/path/to/the/script

[Simon]

Yeah thanks, that works great.

In the meantime I came up with a rather simple solution that works as well. You can select the .command file to open using X11 instead of Terminal (Get Info > Open with...). Runs just fine.