Openbox not launching shell scripts

Question

So I have some shell scripts, more specifically scripts that launch some games [AtomZombieSmasher, VVVVVV, the humble indie bundles basically]. They just don't launch. They work via terminal launch, but they don't work when I add to them to the Openbox menu. I've even tried adding "xterm -e /path/to/game/AtomZombieSmasher" and an xterm window just flashes on screen. VVVVVV just flashes on screen regardless of the changes I make.
I'm not sure what the cause of this is, and googling hasn't helped much either. So, any ideas?

Answer 1

It doesn't do anything, I don't even see my CPU usage rise when I click on the menu item. It just launches right away when I launch the "AtomZombieSmasher" file via terminal with './AtomZombieSmasher'
Here's the script for Atom Zombie Smasher:
#!/bin/bash
# enter the game directory.
cd ./data
# execute the game.
./atomzombiesmasher "$@"
AtomZombieSmasher directory:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 squid users 99 Aug 23 23:45 AtomZombieSmasher
drwxr-xr-x 3 squid users 4096 Aug 23 23:45 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 squid users 0 Aug 24 16:54 directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 squid users 29169 Aug 23 23:45 readme.htm
Other games like VVVVVV and World of Goo do the same. World of Goo even changes my resolution and then quits. VVVVVV just flashes in a window on screen and promptly quits.
VVVVVV:
#!/bin/sh
# Change to game directory
CANONPATH=`readlink -f "$0"`
cd "`dirname "$CANONPATH"`"
# Check resource folders exist
if [ ! -e data ]
then
echo "You are missing games resources `pwd`"
echo "Your installation is incomplete!"
echo 1
fi
MACHINE=`uname -m`
if [ "$MACHINE" = x86_64 ]
then
LIBS=./LIB64
BIN=./VVVVVV_64
else
LIBS=./LIB32
BIN=./VVVVVV_32
fi
# Run the game:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBS:"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
$BIN $@
VVVVVV Directory:
drwxr-xr-x 6 squid users 4096 Aug 23 23:45 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 squid users 0 Aug 24 16:52 directory
drwxr-xr-x 2 squid users 4096 Aug 23 23:45 LIB32
drwxr-xr-x 2 squid users 4096 Aug 23 23:45 LIB64
-rwxr-xr-x 1 squid users 445 Aug 23 23:45 VVVVVV
-rwxr-xr-x 1 squid users 4499732 Aug 23 23:45 VVVVVV_32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 squid users 4370080 Aug 23 23:45 VVVVVV_64
NOTE: I've been editing the menu with Obmenu, I find it easier to use that than to go in and manually edit the menu.xml
I can also ls -lR the directories if you'd like
Last edited by Squiddles (2011-08-24 20:56:08)