How do I make a link work and insert it into menu?

[RobHK]

I installed a program (called TMXValidator) from a BIN file. It installed into a folder TMXValidator in my personal home directory, but no menu item was created. I found the folder and was able to run the program by clicking on the file TMXValidator.sh.

I then created a link to this file. The link was created in the same folder. I tested it and it ran the program. I then moved the link to the desktop, and it would no longer run the program. It opens the Run dialog but does not respond when I click Run.

I opened the link in a text editor and saw:

#!/bin/sh
#/*******************************************************************************
# * Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 Maxprograms
# * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
# * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
# * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
# * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
# *
# * Contributors:
# * Rodolfo M. Raya - initial API and implementation
# * Geraldine Lin - Chinese translations
# *******************************************************************************/

CP="/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/tmx.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/jdom.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/xercesImpl.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/xml-apis.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/resolver.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/GTK/swt.jar"
java -Xmx999M -cp $CP com.maxprograms.gui.TMXValidatorGUI $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6

I'd be grateful if someone couldhelp me to:
- get the link to run from the desktop
- insert the item in the main menu

TIA

Rob

[Husse]

That looks a bit hard to decifer
Make a new link from the desktop
This should also work in the menu
(I don't really know what kind of link you made....)

[RobHK]

That looks a bit hard to decifer
Make a new link from the desktop
This should also work in the menu
(I don't really know what kind of link you made....)

How do I make a link from the desktop? I made the original link by right-clicking on the program icon in its folder and it was automatically created in the same folder. I copied it to the desktop and it no longer ran, though I could open the Run dialog.
I can't understand the detail of the link script, but I can see that the full path is in the link, not a relative path.

[MagnusB]

Make a launcher on the desktop, and move the file back to the original folder, as it is probably symlinked to something.
Then make the desktop launcher run the file: sh /path/to/file/here

[Husse]

the full path is in the link

Both yes and no if I read it right, but MagnusB's suggestion should work

[RobHK]

I right-clicked the desktop and opened the dialog box. I entered a name and then browsed to the file which runs the program (/home/robin/TMXValidator/tmxvalidator.sh). The desktop icon was created, but when I click on it nothing happens. No Run dialog box appears, unlike my problem with the link created in the program folder, which -- when moved to the Desktop -- would still open the Run dialog, but would not run the program.


This is what the link looks like if opened in a text editor:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=TMXValidator
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon[en_GB]=gnome-panel-launcher
Exec=/home/robin/TMXValidator/tmxvalidator.sh
Name[en_GB]=TMXValidator
Icon=gnome-panel-launcher
GenericName[en_GB]=

[Husse]

Terminal=false

What if Terminal=true ?

[RobHK]

Terminal=false

What if Terminal=true ?

It opens a terminal which immediately closes. Just time to get the beginning of a multi-line error message beginning "Error in...". Seems logical.

[Husse]

Look a this

CP="/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/tmx.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/jdom.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/xercesImpl.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/xml-apis.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/resolver.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/GTK/swt.jar"
java -Xmx999M -cp $CP com.maxprograms.gui.TMXValidatorGUI $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6

There is no path here

CP com.maxprograms.gui.TMXValidatorGUI

If you added the path it might work. The path would be /home/robin/ I guess

[RobHK]

Look a this

CP="/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/tmx.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/jdom.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/xercesImpl.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/xml-apis.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/resolver.jar:/home/robin/TMXValidator/lib/GTK/swt.jar"
java -Xmx999M -cp $CP com.maxprograms.gui.TMXValidatorGUI $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6

There is no path here

CP com.maxprograms.gui.TMXValidatorGUI

If you added the path it might work. The path would be /home/robin/ I guess

No, it doesn't change anything.

But it's not really what we are looking to do, is it? We are looking at how to create a link that works through the GUI.