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My guess is that some environment variables are not set. For your 3) try you could try to copy+paste the ROS specific source / export commands from your ~/.bashrc after #!/bin/sh.

Another point is that all this might work better if you use bash shell; use #!/bin/bash and/or google how to set the default shell for your OS when double clicking.....

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