Nigel,
I have a little wrapper script to stop the double (triple/quadruple!)
clicking. You can take a look at
http://www.elbnet.com/libsys/files/mozilla-start
You could easily add a similar lock file check to your little
hourglass script.
Pete Billson
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nigel barker wrote:
This little script was given to me by friendly people at just linux forums
#!/bin/bash
xsetroot -cursor_name watch &
konqueror /mnt/student/ -geometry 600x500 &
sleep 5
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
exit
when the user clicks the icon on the icewm toolbar:
the wait (watch) cursor appears
the app is launched (in this case konqueror with some parameters)
then after sleeping for a while, the cursor changes back.
you can play with the sleep to get the desired effect on your system. best
to have a long wait to prevent over clicking at busy times.
I have the script saved in /etc/icewm and its executable
the /etc/icewm/toolbar file is edited to point to the script
this only works if the cursor moves over blank desktop. if it stays on the
toolbar, or moves over an open window, then the normal pointer appears.
I would really like to stop multiple launches. Let me know if you get any
good answers to your second point.
G'day,
I've been toying with LTSP for years and it looks like I'm finally going
to get to deploy it for real. Before I do though I have two questions
that didn't get any good hits in the archives but I'm sure that
experienced LTSP'ers will no doubt have solutions.
1. I've decided to run with Icewm to keep things as fast as possible.
However there doesn't appear to be any feedback to the user on
application startup (like the hourglass cursor). I know of the Xalf
project and was going to use that but it appears to be at end of life
because there is a new application notification standard that Gnome/KDE
support but Ice doesn't. I'm open to using a different window manager
and have installed Fvwm (but disappointed with it's look and feel, and
not sure that I want to spend the yards working out how to change it
seeing as it also doesn't appear to provide a busy feed back). Someone
else has suggested that the cursor is not necessary as the cpu monitor
in the Icewm task bar activates when the user launches and app but this
is not really that good and goes off when other users do stuff. I also
don't want the constant network traffic that the cpu thing requries.
2. How can I restrict the number of applications that a user launches to
a reasonable amount? The users are being moved from a PC environment
where they seem to be in the habit of trying to get the most many
applications iconified into the task bar. I would think that half a
dozen applications per user would be heaps.
TIA's
Pete
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