Launching a Script on the Linux Platform
Rob Gaddi
rgaddi at highlandtechnology.invalid
Tue Nov 12 13:25:57 EST 2019
On 11/12/19 10:06 AM, Wildman wrote:
> What is the best approach for launching a Python GUI program
> on a Linux platform. The program will be distributed in .deb
> format. So the .deb will contain a menu file as well as a
> .desktop file. The post install script will update the system
> menu.
>
> My question is how should the program be executed? Here are
> two choices for the "command=" entry in the menu file...
>
> command="/path/to/program.py"
>
> In this case the hash-bang would have to be included in the
> program script... #!/usr/bin/env python3
>
> The other choice is this...
>
> command="python3 /path/to/program.py"
>
> (Of course, the Exec command in the .desktop file should match.)
>
> Is one method better than the other or does it acutally matter?
>
I will note that without the shebang (and setting the execute bit), the program
is only executable from the GUI menu, not the command prompt. I personally
start even GUI programs far more often from a prompt.
To follow Linux conventions you'd put the shebang, make the file executable, and
put the executable somewhere on the PATH. I'd stick to those conventions
barring a particular reason not to.
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Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology -- www.highlandtechnology.com
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