Custom Actions calling Term

[Alexander Toresson]

On 12/8/06, JoeHill <joehill at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Trying to configure some custom actions for the context menu, and can't figure
> what I'm doing wrong in calling Terminal.
>
> For example, I want to create one for burning an iso to cdr, so I created a
> script like so:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=10 dev=ATA:1,0,0 -dao
>
> ...name it burn_iso in my ~/bin, and config the custom action like so:
>
> Terminal -x /home/joehill/bin/burn_iso %n (put the full path, just to be safe)
>
> ...but all that happens is a term opens for a split second, then disappears, no
> opportunity to see any errors.
>
> I'm sure I'm missing something here, but danged if I know what it is :-\
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks!
>

I think you forgot to actually give the file you want to burn as an
argument to cdrecord.

Regards, Alexander Toresson