Comments on: HowTo: Launch a terminal app from a shortcut on Nokia N900

By: utterlymundane

utterlymundane — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:59:09 +0000

A slightly less twisted way to do this is to use this shellscript as the app:

/home/user # cat ifconfig.sh
#!/bin/sh

/sbin/ifconfig
read throw_away

This will wait for you to hit enter before quitting, without starting up vi.

If you have installed ‘less’ or ‘more’, that’ll work even better — you can do
/sbin/ifconfig | less

This is a great tip, I was getting real tired of the starting-up-xterm-starting-up-emacs rota.

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:47:13 +0000

Just the other day my phone displayed: “Unable to receive or send messages. Device storage full. Remove data to free memory.” What are the steps needed so the phone can return to it’s original settings. Furthermore, I don’t have any knowledge about reflashing.

By: archebyte

archebyte — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:39:45 +0000

@Geezer, not sure why that didn’t work. A twisted way to do this is to put the following in a script (/home/user/myscript.sh):
/sbin/ifconfig > /tmp/dat /usr/bin/osso-xterm 'vi /tmp/dat'

make the script executable
chmod a+x /home/user/myscript.sh

and call the script from topx.desktop
Exec=/home/user/myscript.sh

This will open the output of ifconfig in vi

HTH

By: archebyte

archebyte — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:26:27 +0000

@rm42 yes, I wrote a HowTo here http://www.themaemo.com/howto-launch-a-terminal-app-from-a-shortcut-part-2/

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By: Geezer

Geezer — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:23:04 +0000

I tried this trick with ifconfig. The window opens and immediately closes. Same if I launch osso-xterm ifconfig from the command line. Any ideas?

Great tip! Thanks!!

By: rm42

rm42 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:24:22 +0000

That is a nice tip. Thanks for sharing. As for the icon, I think it is just a matter or pointing the shortcut to an icon somewhere…

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Share Reader — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:08:12 +0000

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