Running programs from Rox

[Lobster]

This always confuses me (not difficult)
I have a shell script that can be called from the command line with

./lobster.sh

but does not run when clicked on from rox
I have set the permissions and the run features (with Rox) but maybe I should use the command line?

What would I type in or do?

[Bancobusto]

Lobster, that's strange.

I created a script called midnight-commander.

I can click on it inside ROX and it does what I want it to.

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#!/bin/sh
aterm -tr -trsb -sh 50 -fg white -e mc

What is your script? Maybe I don't understand...

Ah, I don't. A shell command. I guess I'm not being very helpfull

[doopdoop]

What does your script do ?
If it is supposed to generate some output to the console, which you want to see, you have to make sure it is run in an rxvt or another xterm. Otherwise the script does not where to put it's output and runs quietly.
My workaround in ROX is to name each script, which I want to run in an xterm, with an .sh and associate the following run action with the type x-sh:

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 xterm -e "$1"

[Bancobusto]

That's very well put. I think that that was what I was going to try and say next.

doopdoop, thanks again for all your help!

[Lobster]

What does your script do ?
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It calls and displays text using gxmessage (a new dotpup)

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#!/bin/sh
gxmessage -file communication.txt -buttons Next -bg yellow -name IRC_from_Anywhere -nearmouse & 
gxmessage -file info.txt -buttons Next -bg green -name Info -nearmouse & 
gxmessage -file imagewiki.txt -buttons Next -bg pink -name Image -nearmouse & 

[GuestToo]

a file with a filename extension .sh will execute the rox run-action that was setup for it

like an .mp3 file can be setup to run xmms if it's clicked

an ordinary executable file is not using rox's run-action system

so an executable file named click-me may behave differently from a file name click-me.sh

the difference is that a .sh file's working directory will be $HOME ... an ordinary executable file's working directory will be the dir the executable is in

if you rename your file lobster instead of lobster.sh, it might work

you can see what working dir the executable is using by putting this line in the file:

gxmessage "`pwd`"

(or xmessage)

[Lobster]

if you rename your file lobster instead of lobster.sh, it might work
(or xmessage)

Changing it turned it into a cog - runnable prog. It works!

thanks everyone