Starting multiple applications in Ubuntu Unity
- by Black
I would like to start multiple GUI applications with a single script or command in Ubuntu 12.
By now, I have a shell script that
starts an application in the foreground and waits for the termination of the application
afterwards starts several applications (like browser, mailer, IRC client) in the background
The script is working, however all the applications are getting the same icon and are treated like different windows of one application, i.e. the script.
Is there a way to start applications from a script, that makes Unity display the icons of the applications, e.g. the Thunderbird icon, instead of a single default icon for the script?
The script looks like this:
! /bin/bash
wait for termination...
/usr/bin/libreoffice path/to/document
in background
/usr/bin/thunderbird &
/usr/bin/pidgin &
