On Friday 15 April 2011, Kevin Krammer wrote: > 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.
I didn't get it to work with screen, but at least I can hide the konsole showing the output most of the time. The resulting commandline is a bit convoluted $ ksystraycmd --hidden -- \ konsole --title "Backup" --icon folder-sync \ --nofork --noclose \ -e /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu --noignorebutton -t \ /usr/local/bin/mybackup However, if I use the menu editor to and an entry and put in that line as the command, it does not work. The same goes if I add the command to a script and call the script from the menu (desktop) entry. As far as I can tell, ksystraycmd doesn't work in that context. Note that although I'm using KDE 4.6.1, I'm still using the classic launcher. Maybe that makes a difference, although it shouldn't. As far as screen is concerned, I don't think it is easily possible to do what I want. I.e., I'd like to detach the screen session and close the konsole when its window is hidden, and when it is shown again, I'd like to launch a new konsole and reattach to the screen session. My quick experiments with kstart have not been encouraging. Just $ kstart --tosystray konsole seems to annoy kwin so much that it moves all windows to the first desktop. Nothing else seems to happen. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104151236.07539.mich...@schuerig.de
