Re: Can you click on a desktop icon and play a .wav as well as starting the app?

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Around 10:43pm on Friday, March 23, 2007 (UK time), Nigel Henry scrawled:

> The question is as in the subject line.
> 
> Is it possible to set more than one command on a desktop launcher? For 
> example, you have a music app and want to play a few bars of music as the app 
> is launching when you click on the icon. Is that possible? 


One way would be to create a short shell script to play a wav file with
the "play" command, then to launch the application that was required.

E.g.

#!/bin/bash
play /path/to/some/file.wav
firefox

Then setup a desktop icon to run this shell script.

Steve

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