[horix]

I saw the recent post where suthercd said to use "/sw/bin/xmms &" to run xmms within X11... the way i do it is "cd /sw/bin; ./gaim" (to run gaim in this case of course). just wondering if there is a way to write a script or something to start x11 and run that command right from the dock (like URL's or something) i dont know apple script at all, just thought i would see if anyone here knew... thanks

[bracken]

Try in the terminal: open-x11 /sw/bin/gaim

You can make a shell script:

Code:
#!/bin/sh
open-x11 /sw/bin/gaim

Then "chmod +x thescript" and add the ".command" extension and put it in the dock.

[pwolfe1]

I did like it says above, but I cannot add the icon to the dock. It will sit on the right side of the dock seperator, but not the left. and when I click it, SimpleText pops up, not the program I am trying to start (gimp). If I run the script from a terminal, the gimp starts up no prob. what am I doing wrong?

[suthercd]

If I understand what you are doing, your icon represents the executable shell script. The icon does not represent a clickable application. It is a text file that runs when executed via the Terminal of X11 xterm window. Those apps provide an interactive link to the Unix commands. If you want an icon that you can click on to execute the commands, you will need to use someething like applescript to create an application. You can learn how to write a simple applescript that will call the shell command.

Craig

[riverfreak]

Here's some info at apple dev center that demonstrates creating a cocoa application to wrap around unix commands. Probably overkill for this application.