.desktop scripts for Vnstat not working while the commands work in terminal.

[Member anilkagi]

Hello there,

I have installed vnstat. And I can run the commands in terminal, namely;

vnstat -l -i wlan0
vnstat -h -i wlan0
vnstat -d -i wlan0
vnstat -m -i wlan0

All these commands work in the terminal.

However I thought of creating desktop scripts to run those commands for other users, instead of typing those commands in the terminal. Not everybody can do that.

I created these executable files with the names, ‘Internet Traffic Live.desktop’, ‘Internet Traffic Hourly.desktop’, ‘Internet Traffic Daily.desktop’ and ‘Internet Traffic Monthly.desktop’.

The script I added to these files are as below;

[Desktop Entry]
Name=vnstat
Exec=vnstat -l -i wlan0
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Name[en_IN]=Internet Traffic Live

[Desktop Entry]
Name=vnstat
Exec=vnstat -h -i wlan0
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Name[en_IN]=Internet Traffic Hourly

[Desktop Entry]
Name=vnstat
Exec=vnstat -d -i wlan0
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Name[en_IN]=Internet Traffic Daily

[Desktop Entry]
Name=vnstat
Exec=vnstat -m -i wlan0
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Name[en_IN]=Internet Traffic Monthly

Here, among all these scripts only the ‘Internet Traffic Live.desktop’ works. But the hourly, daily and monthly scripts don’t work. The terminal flashes for a fraction a second and goes.

What am I doing wrong in this?

Thanks

• This topic was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by anilkagi.

[Member anilkagi]

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Hello there,

It’s solved.

I added;

bash -c

and

$SHELL

It’s working now

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