Make Xmms Launch With Parameters

[Nighthawk98TJ]

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!!

[Stubear]

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

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#!/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

[Nighthawk98TJ]

Great!  Thank you!!!