[SOLVED]A simple question about bash scripting

Just for fun, I thought I'd try making Arch as "parent friendly" as possible (i.e., easy to use once set up). I've already made a nifty little "system maintenance" script that presents you with a "select" bash menu, with options being "Install, Remove, Update [Without AUR, with AUR, abs, exit], Search, Install and Search (using Yaourt), and exit"
That works wonderfully, and it only requires typing "sm" into the terminal.
But just to make it yet *more* "parent friendly", I thought I'd make a .desktop file.
This is the problem.
I want the shortcut to essentially open up the script in a terminal. So it would have to execute, say, "xterm" and then open the "sm" script within the called terminal.
I believe this would mean I need to either add something to my "sm" script or make a new script that opens terminal and calls sm.
I'm sure this has an easy solution, but I'm a total amateur just having some fun.
Any suggestions?
Last edited by hwkiller (2010-07-13 00:32:48)

I am not a 100% on .desktop files since I never use them.
but if your command in the desktop file is something like
xterm -e /path/to/your/sm/file
that should work.
EDIT: Bah too late !
Last edited by Inxsible (2010-07-12 19:27:11)

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