Re: How do I create a launch-icon on the Mac desktop?

In article <1191330803.335995.250750@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
support.accountz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I guess what I actually meant was "A shortcut that works" i.e.
doubleclicking either icon, the original or the Desktop shortcut does
nothing whereas typing the above path in the CLI works - so I guess my
question is: how do I create a Desktop icon that, when you double-
click it, it fires up this command:
 
/Developer/qt/designer.app/Contents/MacOS/designer

The Finder seems to work so that it merely hands over a reference of the
file clicked on to the launch program. X11 executes the file in a bash
shell. For some reason, Terminal does not accept this.

So one way is to write an ordinary script, say in a console
  cat > foo
  /Developer/qt/designer.app/Contents/MacOS/designer
  ^D
  chmod +x foo
And then, in Finder, Get Info of "foo", and set it to launch to X11. X11
will then create a bash shell, and execute the script.

Hans Aberg
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