In case you use MyMoves, here’s a fun thing to play with: running Python & shell scripts with gestures 
For this you will need to have the developer mode enabled. I’m also going to assume you’ve already got Python for Harmattan already installed.
Running shell scripts with MyMoves
Say, you’ve got a useful shell script at /home/user/MyDocs/myscript.sh. Let’s run that using MyMoves gestures:
1. Edit /home/user/.config/mymoves.conf
2. Replace the line of the gesture of your choice. I’m going to use the ‘swipe up with two fingers’ gesture for this example, which is the row beginning with d0 in mymoves.conf
Put this into that line:
d0###MyScript###/usr/bin/aegis-exec -s -u user -l ‘/usr/bin/meego-terminal -n -e sh /home/user/MyDocs/myscript.sh’
3. Make sure to edit myscript.sh and insert a pausing row to the end of the script, so the Terminal window won’t just close immediately:
read -p ‘Press a key to continue…’
4. Go to MyMoves configuration UI, press ‘Stop Observing’ and after that ‘Start observing’, so the updated mymoves.conf is loaded.
5. Swipe!
Running Python scripts with MyMoves
Python scripts work exactly the same way, except you pass the -i parameter to the Python shell so it won’t close the Terminal window after the script is run.
So, for e.g. a script in /home/user/MyDocs/myscript.py, do the mymoves.conf editing as above, but add a line like this:
d0###MyPythonScript###/usr/bin/aegis-exec -s -u user -l ‘/usr/bin/meego-terminal -e /usr/bin/python -i /home/user/MyDocs/myscript.py’
Then just press ‘Stop Observing’ and ‘Start Observing’ in the MyMoves UI, and you’re ready to use the script.
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