Linux Users: Making Submit Script Desktop Shortcuts

Desktop shortcuts let you invoke the submit script interface easily.

Desktop Shortcuts: Command Line

The easiest, most compatible way to set up Desktop shortcuts in linux is from the command line, making symbolic links in your ~/Desktop directory that point to the script on the file server.

Creating A Desktop Shortcut With ln(1)

cd ~/Desktop ln -s //yourserver/jobs/rushscripts/submit-generic.pl .

This makes a shortcut to the submit-generic.pl script. Do this for each script you want to have appear on your desktop.

That's it!

Desktop Shortcuts: GUI

You can also create shortcuts from the GUI, but instructions differ from one desktop to another (KDE, Gnome, Flwm, etc). In this example, we'll show a KDE shortcut:

Right click on the desktop, and choose Create New -> Link To Application

This will bring up a properties dialog. Choose the 'Execute' tab.

Choose the "Execute" tab, and set the Command

Be sure to use an absolute path to a copy of the script on your file server. Don't make a link to the local files in /usr/local/rush/examples. You want the link to point to a single copy of the script that all the machines, including render machines, can 'see'.

If you're using a mixed network of Unix and Windows, be sure to specify a UNC style pathname, which uses the leading 'double forward slash'. For info about UNC paths across platforms, see this FAQ.

Your sysadmin should have used these instructions to copy the scripts from /usr/local/rush/examples to your file server.

Click "OK".

You should now have a shortcut on your desktop that will invoke the submit script on the file server.

That's it.
Click on the shortcut, and the interface should come up.

If it doesn't, go into a unix shell, and try to invoke the submit script with the same path from the shortcut's properties, and watch for error messages.