Re: First pass at script to build start menu icons

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> 2) Terminal programs run and exit.  Its like doing Start->Run->ipconfig. 
>  The console pops up, lists its output, then is promptly destroyed.  I 
> seem to recall an xterm option that caused it to remain open until 
> closed manually, but I cannot remember it now.

It turned out to be path problems, not that xterm was exiting when the 
shell was done (which wouldn't be possible because less hadn't finished 
yet).  The problem was two fold: the app has to reference 
/usr/X11R6/bin/${app} and less has to be /bin/less:

mkshortcut --arguments=xterm\ -display\ 127.0.0.1:0.0\ -e\ bash\ -c\ 
\"/usr/X11R6/bin/${app}\ -display\ 127.0.0.1:0.0\ "$@"\ "| /bin/less"\" \
	--name="${folder}/${description}" --icon=/cygwin.ico \
	--workingdir=/bin /usr/X11R6/bin/run.exe

I think we could do this more cleanly than to hardcode tapp to 
/usr/X11R6/bin/.  Have you got any ideas?  I am sure it is really 
simple, but I have to get to bed now.

Harold