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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Sharp ROMs => Topic started by: Nighthawk98TJ on April 07, 2005, 08:25:06 pm
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Hey All,
I am attempting to setup XMMS with Sharp 3.10 so that when I launch the icon, it launches with a few command line parameters (-p -e /mnt/card/Music/*.*)... however, when I edit /opt/QtPalmtop/apps/Applications/xmms.desktop, I change the "Exec=" line to be:
Exec=xmms -p -e /mnt/card/Music/*.*
(tried with quotes too... doesn't work!)
... and then after restarting Qtopia and hitting the icon, it won't launch XMMS. If I do this command from the console, it works as needed.
Are there any suggestions as to how I can get this functioning?
My end goal is to bind this command to a button on the Z to launch XMMS, enqueue my sons and play them with one keypress.
BTW, I have a 5500 running 3.10.
Thank you!!
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You can't pass parameters via qtopia, if you want arguemnts for your app then you have to write a shell script to do that and then call the shell script from the .desktop file.
Example for you case
#!/bin/bash
xmms -p -e /mnt/card/Music/* - it's linux so you don't need 2 * (unless you are doing that to ignore directory)
Save that as xmms-start.sh, then chmod +x xmms-start.sh, copy xmms-start.sh to /home/Qtopia/bin then change your Exec= to Exec=xmms-start.sh
Stu
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Great! Thank you!!!