On Saturday 24 March 2007 15:22, Mark Knoop wrote: > At 22:49 on 23 Mar 2007, Steve Searle <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Around 10:43pm on Friday, March 23, 2007 (UK time), Nigel Henry > > > > scrawled: > > > 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 > > Or perhaps a slight improvement: > > #!/bin/bash > play /path/to/some/file.wav & > exec firefox > > -- > Mark Knoop Thanks for that Mark. I'll keep a reference to that. Struggling to get play, or aplay to play the .wav, at the same time time as another soundapp is running at the mo. Nigel.
