Shortcut help???
 

Hi, new to this forum. Recently bought my N900. Absolutely delighted with it! Pocket Linux with a Cellphone built in as a bonus, great. I use it for streaming music, live radio and television from my server in England to wherever I am in the world. Just what I was looking for. I am a retired mainframe sysprog, still like to meddle with computers. I log on to my server using ssh. I am looking for a way to simplify my logon process. What I want to be able to do is just click on a shortcut that opens X-term & automatically runs my logon script.

Help much appreciated,

Richard.

Re: Shortcut help???
 

Hello macey, welcome to the forum :)

This sounds like task that could easily be implimented with the Queen Beecon Widget / desktop command application. I don't have the link to the thread ATM so you may have to just pop that in the search bar :)

The first page of that topic also has links to wiki page with instrucution on making your own commands.

Hope this is useful for you?

Re: Shortcut help???
 

You can also write shell script, and put it to execute into .desktop file.

Re: Shortcut help???
 

Thanks for the suggestion, perhaps I should have made myself clearer, I would really prefer a shell script solution.

In Ubuntu it is really easy to define a shortcut on the desktop and run a script.
This is my Ubuntu script:_

gnome-terminal --command='ssh richard@mydomain.com' --title='Connecting to home server, please wait....'


I am not familiar with Maemo but I am looking for a similar solution.
1. How can I define a desktop shortcut that runs my script?
2. Does my script make sense in Maemo? Presumably not as it doesn't use gnome!

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Re: Shortcut help???
 

Thanks, found the solution :-

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35858

A really good thread.
ps, gnome-terminal equiv osso-xterm