Strange problem with desktop launch of shell script

[kj5qw]

I have been playing around with the Kommander Editor and have managed to get my first one working. The Kommander script outputs to a text file which is then handled by an external perl script to process the info in a terminal window. I threw together a launcher shell script that first runs the Kommander script and then upon completion runs the perl script. If I run the launcher script from the command line it runs fine.

I then made a menu entry to launch it and a desktop link but neither work. If I try to start the app from one of these links it launches the Kommander script and then exits the launcher script on exit rather than running the external perl script. I can't seem to figure out why it works from the command line but not from a desktop link. Here is the basic of the launcher script. Maybe it isnt correct?

#!/bin/bash

kmdr-executor $HOME/bin/KsomeApp/KsomeApp.kmdr
exec "./somePerlScript"

Any help would be appreciated

[Hlingler]

Hello:

I'm not very good at shell scripts, and I don't know exactly why the script is failing when launched from the menu or link, but you could try:
kmdr-executor $HOME/bin/KsomeApp/KsomeApp.kmdr; exec "./somePerlScript"
OR:
kmdr-executor $HOME/bin/KsomeApp/KsomeApp.kmdr && exec "./somePerlScript"

V

[kj5qw]

OK, I tried your suggestion but to no avail. Both of your suggestions work fine from the commandline but still the same problem when executing from a link. Im wondering if maybe it might be a problem with the number of child processes. I don't know. Im stabbing in the dark here. Anyhoo........

[PabloTwo]

You might try using "full/path/to/somePerlScript" instead of "./somePerlScript" in your bash script.

Paul

[kj5qw]

Thanks guys for the input. I finally fixed the problem by eliminating the launcher script and just adding this line to my perl script.

system ("kmdr-executor /home/~user/bin/ksomeApp/ksomeApp.kmdr");

[kj5qw]

Well that turned out to work only temporarily. It started the same thing again.????

Any way I ended up removing the system() statement from the perl file and adding

Konsole -e "./somePerlscript"

to the execute button bash script in the KsomeApp.kmdr file and it took care of the problem once and for all. I chalk it up to a learning example.