Thanks again Tony. I have been playing with variations of your notes and now have a much better feel for what I really want. I would like to have user 'parts' log into an xwindow screen and see the normal gnome screen. Then, I would like to add an icon the says 'Parts Dept'. When the icon is clicked on, I would like the parts application (ie, myprogram) to execute. So, my real question is, how do I add a fresh icon and startup script file to the gnome window?
Also, some time back, I found that .bash_profile in the users home directory would not allow me to start the text based application properly. But I found that if I disabled .bash_profile (by renaming it), this caused the users .profile file to execute at login, and it brought the application up properly. That fixed my text logon problem, but now when I logon to the gnome window, .profile does NOT get executed, and none of my application flags get set. What does the gnome logon default to when it cannot find .bash_profile in the users home directory? Thanks for all of your help. This thing is starting to look very promising. Billy Davis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:37 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Running text based application in a Window > On 21-Jan-2003/09:53 -0500, Billy Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks Tony. This looks like what I want, except how do I specify a > >different 'myprogram' for each login account? > > The GNOME session settings are inherently per-user. There is no way to set > it once and have it apply to all users. You have to set it for each user, > so setting the desired program is not a problem... except that this could > be a lot of work if there are a lot of users. > > Another way to do this is to call a script from within each user's > ~/.bash_profile. The script would check to see if it's running under X, > then call the app appropriately. > > #!/bin/bash > if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then > gnome-terminal --title 'My Program' -x myprogram & > else > myprogram > fi > > > Ideally, you'd put the users into groups and have the script run the > correct app based on the user's group membership. > > #!/bin/bash > for groupname in `grep $LOGNAME /etc/group | cut -f 1 -d :` > do > case $groupname in > sales) > appname=salesapp;; > production) > appname=prodapp;; > execs) > appname=execapp;; > esac > done > > if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then > gnome-terminal -x $appname & > else > $appname > fi > > > The way I wrote this, if more than one group matches, the app will be > based on the last group to match. You can use the first match by adding an > 'if' test before the 'case' statement: > > do > if [ -z "$appname ]; then > case... > esac > fi > done > > I don't know of a way to use the "most significant" match. You basically > have to manage group memberships in order for this to work. > > Tony > -- > Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E> > OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D > AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> > Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
