Cannot bind keyboard shortcut to .sh

Question

elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki

I am trying to create a keybinding (like CTRL+Z) to a script file, but it never executes.

Steps:

System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Custom -> Add

I have tried: 1.) full path, /home/me/myscript.sh, 2.) bash /home/me/myscript.sh 3.) copying the script to /usr/bin

Nothing seems to work. I have create other custom bindings to things like xkill and it works fine, just cannot get it to run a script file.

Any help is appreciated :-)

Answer 1

I found out that it was actually running the script but not showing the terminal. I validated this by launching chrome from inside the bash script -- so that was the issue.

Answer 2

Add '-c' to the bash command. This worked for me:

bash -c <full path to script>

E.g.,

bash -c /home/me/myscript.sh