Problem setting up desktop shortcut for a shell script

Hardware Librem 5
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This topic is a follow-up to an other one

Let’s try step by step where your configuration is broken, can you share the following:

  • What happens when you open a new terminal and type in
    ./ChangeScale.sh
    This should change the scale of the display and print “Change to scale : xx” (where xx is one of the values you put in the list_scale variable of the script
  • What do you see when you also type in the terminal, the following:
    cat .local/share/applications/ChangeScale.desktop
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Nothing

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Change Scale
Exec=/home/purism/ChangeScale.sh
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
NoDisplay=false
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;Settings;
Icon=/home/purism/.local/share/Icons/ScaleChange.png
3

What do you see when you type in the terminal:
ls -l ./ChangeScale.sh

Any particular reason you added NoDisplay=false and put true to StartupNotify in the desktop file ?

4

purism@pureos:~$ ls -l ./ChangeScale.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 purism purism 525 May 26 07:07 ./ChangeScale.sh purism@pureos:~$

No, I just used my template and then filled in the right fields.

5

wlr-randr output

DSI-1 "<Unknown> <Unknown>  (DSI-1)"
  Physical size: 65x130 mm
  Enabled: yes
  Modes:
    720x1440 px, 63.414001 Hz (preferred, current)
  Position: 0,0
  Transform: normal
  Scale: 2.000000
purism@pureos:~$
6

ok, there is something wrong here, permissions are OK, but the size of the file is not
The size of your script is 525, it should be around 610-620

Make sure that the script you have is identical to what I have currently posted in the other topic

7

I copied this right off of your post.

#!/bin/bash

[ ! -e /usr/bin/wlr-randr ] && echo -e "\e[31mError\e[0m: wlr-randr is missing\n==> sudo apt install wlr-randr" && exit 1

list_scale="1.25 2 1.75"
output="DSI-1"

current_scale=$(wlr-randr --output "${output}" | grep 'Scale:' | awk '{ print $2 }')

next_scale=${list_scale%% *}
flg_found=0
for scale in ${list_scale} ; do
    if [ $flg_found -eq 0 ] ; then
        len=${#scale}
        [ "${scale}" == "${current_scale:0:$len}" ] && flg_found=1
        continue
    fi
    next_scale=${scale}
    break;
done
8

the first line is missing (which makes it a shell script)
And the last ones are also missing … (which are doing the job of changing the scale)

9

Yeah it was just the last line missing. Thanks😅