On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:53:58AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > On Sat, 9 May 2009, Phil - w2lie wrote: > > > Also I tired to make a small script on my desktop that would launch > > 'festival_server &' and then XASTIR. > > I used the editor to create the file, and then tried to make it an > > executable > > file..but when i click it, it seems to always want to open the editor..
> I suspect you used a 'word processor' instead of a 'text editor'. I like > 'pico' (aka 'nano'), and I suggest that you also make yourself familiar > with 'vi'. Eventually you'll find yourself in a situation where that is > the only editor available. Make sure the file is saved as plain ascii > text without any extension. In addition to making the file executable, > you need to either place it in a directory that is included in your search > path, or invole it from the command line with a fully-explicit pathname. Another thing you might check is that you have the right "magic number" at the top of the script to tell the world what to do with it, e.g.: #!/bin/sh This is one of those things that is second nature once you've got a few scripts under your belt, but that is easily forgotten when learning *nix. If you don't have that, perhaps the desktop environment doesn't know what to do with it when you double click it, even though it's executable. Can you run the script from the command line? As for the second attempt to run your script getting a "failed to bind" error, that's probably because the first festival server you started up is still running. You can only have one running at a time, so starting it up every time you start xastir will fail to start festival every time but the first time --- and you don't need to do so anyway since Festival keeps running until you kill it. What you'll want your script to do is to check to see if festival is running, then start it if it isn't. That'll get you an xastir that can always use speech, without unnecessary attempts to start multiple festival servers. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. -- Ineffective daily affirmation _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
