Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello. I set up a computer in a homeless shelter, with access to the
Bravo. :-) > One problem, though, is some people feel that to press the mouse more > will speed up the opening of an application (like Firefox, for > example.) They'll repeatedly press the mouse, perhaps thirty times, I'd start with a little education. Force them to go through a tutorial before they're let loose, or make up a sign with instructions and hang it on the wall beside the machine. > Is there a way to have applications that are opening ignore subsequent > requests to open? Sure. Change the icon to run a wrapper shell script which checks first to see if the binary's running. The script would grep the process table: #!/bin/sh # if [ "$(/bin/ps fax | /bin/grep '/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox')" ]; then exit 1 else /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox & exit 0 fi -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]