MaxMAME from the Launcher

[jason123]

Ok well, I\'ve been trying to set up MaxMAME so that I can tap an icon and launch the corresponding game.  For this scenario -- lets say its sponge (a ficticious arcade rom).   So I\'ve made my sponge.desktop file so that I now have a lovely sponge Icon on my launcher screen under the games catagory, next step (because under exec of that launcer I wrote \"MaxMAME sponge\" would be I thought to symlink MaxMAME from /mnt/cf/mame/ to /home/QtPalmtop/bin/  with

su
cd /mnt/cf/mame
ln -s MaxMAME /home/QtPalmtop/bin/MaxMAME

That completes succesfully, then I try to execute MaxMAME from /home/QtPalmtop/bin and i get this \"./MaxMAME: symbolic link loop\"

any ideas or suggestions??

[ScottYelich]

you\'re making a relative symlink... and then trying to execute a program via your path, and it finds the program, ie: the relative symlink, and it points to itself.


ln -s /full/path/to/MaxMAME /home/QtPalptop/bin/MaxMAME
etc

Scott

[jason123]

ahhhhhhhhhhh  -- thanks!  I ended up taking care of it a different way though ... I made scripts in my /home/QtPalmtop/bin to launch MaxMAME and the rom.