On Wednesday, 2011-04-13, Michael Schuerig wrote: > I realize that this question is not specific to Debian or even KDE, but > that's the context where it arises for me. > > I have several very simple scripts that consist of barely anything but > an invocation of rsync. So far, I've always run these scripts on the > commandline, using sudo and screen where necessary or useful. As it is, > that's a rather rustic way of doing things, I'd like to have better > integration with KDE. > > I'd like it to work like this: > - the script is started from the KDE launcher > - kdesu (or kdesudo) asks for the password to get root permissions > - the scripts runs in a screen session and its icon appears in the > system tray > - when I click on the icon, a Konsole window pops up, connected to the > screen session > > Is this at all possible with just a bit of configuration and scripting?
Might be doable. kstart should be able to run any application, hide its window and put an icon into the system tray instead. Using a terminal emulator as such a program, which then runs a command at start and a script doing the su/screen stuff. Cheers, Kevin
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