Help: doubleclick executable script gives warning.

[Golyadkin]

I am programming some application in Python, and made a BASH script to execute it:

chmod +x PyBookcase


#!/usr/bin/bash

python PyBookcase-gui.py


Running it from the console works perfectly. But when I browse to the directory with Nautilus where the files are, and double click it, Nautilus warns me and asks if I want to open or display the file. How do I get rid of this? I want my end users to be able to just double click the script to start the program...

[po0f]

Golyadkin,

Open up gconf-editor and navigate to apps->nautilus->preferences. Change 'executable_text_activation' from 'ask' to 'launch' and you should be good to go.

Or, open up a nautilus window and navigate to edit->preferences. Click the behavior tab and check "Run executable text files when they are clicked".

[Golyadkin]

Thanks for the reply po0f, but is there no way to change this for the file and not for all files? Because I can't make this change on someone else's computer :)

[syxbit]

no, it has to do with how nautilus treats it.
it's still a script