Slightly off topic. There is a utility, /usr/bin/logname
that returns the "login name" of the user. The problem is:
1) in xterm, Eterm, kterm logname works OK
2) in gnome-terminal and kconsol logname always returns
"logname: no login name"
Why doesn't "logname" work correctly all of the time?
We have an application what depends on the "logname"
function to return the correct value. If a user installs
Gnome or KDE the activity bar at the bottom has a "gnome-terminal"
or "kconsol" by default. If they use those Icons to open up a
work space, logname will not work. We shouldn't have to instruct
our customers to setup an xterm, Eterm, of kterm just so that the
logname function will work.
Any ideas?
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Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
