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luskjh

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Registered: 2009-03-24

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[SOLVED] Opening Shell and runnning command(s)

Hi,

I have just discovered the wonderful program xbindkeys, and am thus setting all my keybindings.  I ran into a problem when I came to adding the music keybinding [EDIT].  I don't use a gui, just command line mplayer, so this is a bit problematic, as I want to be able to launch a shell and then run a command inside that shell (in this case cd /home/jhl/music/mplaylist && mplayer *).  So when I try :

konsole -e cd /home/jhl/music/myplaylist && mplayer *

It does not do what I expected .  I've looked around here and on google for an answer, but have yet to find one. 

All help is greatly appreciated .

-Josh

Last edited by luskjh (2009-07-12 17:00:12)

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Dusty

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Re: [SOLVED] Opening Shell and runnning command(s)

the quickest thing to do would be to put the bultiple commands in a script and execute that.

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droog

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Re: [SOLVED] Opening Shell and runnning command(s)

[edit]wrong line of thought i guess.

still try the -playlist switch for mplayer if it is a playlist you are opening.

Last edited by droog (2009-07-12 03:04:55)

crouse

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Re: [SOLVED] Opening Shell and runnning command(s)

Try

konsole -e sh -c "cd /home/jhl/music/myplaylist && mplayer *"

majiq

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Registered: 2009-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Opening Shell and runnning command(s)

If none of that works, see if KDE has an auto-/launcher type thing which has the option of "run in terminal". If it does you can either create a launcher and keybind to that, or scour through the KDE tree for how it goes about doing it. :-)

luskjh

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Registered: 2009-03-24

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] Opening Shell and runnning command(s)

Crouse's method worked (thanks crouse )

And the [EDIT] was because I repeated 'adding the music keybindings' twice, and didn't catch it when reviewing the thread, opps .

Thanks for all the help .

-Josh

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