Originally Posted by TNiga

If you want to run your shell script in the button handler, you need to use function int QProcess::execute ( const QString & program, const QStringList & arguments ).

In above example from Nathraiben you would call it in function hello like this:

Code:

void MainWindow::hello()
{
    QStringList arguments;
    arguments << "Enable custom transitions" << "Droid Sans" << "Black";
    QProcess::execute("/path/to/my/script/script.sh", arguments);
}