Thanks for your continuing help Tony. Looks like I took 2 steps forward and
one step backward. While testing the 'gnome-terminal -x myprogram'
approach, I discovered that I could add
'--background=BLUE --foreground=WHITE' and I got nice colors in the text
window, instead of black and white. With the new approach (.desktop file in
user/.gnome-desktop), I have lost the colors. However, my application
program does run when I click on the icon. My current questions are:
1. Is there a way to add color lines to the [Desktop Entry] file to get my
colors back?
2. When I log onto the gnome window as 'parts', the 'Start Here' window is
automatically open, and I have to close it to be able to see my 'Parts Dept'
icon. Can I change this to not display the 'Start Here' window unless I
click on the 'Start Here' icon?
3. After reading your note on .bash_profile, I removed my .profile file from
the 'parts' users directory, and re-enabled .bash_profile, adding the switch
settings to it, from the .profile file. For example, I have a lot of
switches like this:
INVENTORY=TRUE
BINNUMS=TRUE
MULTICOST=FALSE
DATADIR=/parts/data
etc.
4. After logging onto gnome as 'parts', with .bash_profile modified and
enabled, clicking on the 'Parts Dept' icon will briefly display a black and
white empty text window, and then will immediately close. Opening a regular
terminal window and testing for my switches (ie, echo $INVENTORY), confirms
that they are not set. Restoring things back to using the .profile allows
the application to come up properly. Why will .bash_profile not work?
Again, thanks for your help. I think I am close on this.
Billy Davis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Running text based application in a Window
> On 22-Jan-2003/14:12 -0500, Billy Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >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?
>
> I actually started to suggest this, but then decided to answer the
> question that you asked.
>
> All you have to do is place a .desktop file in each user's ~/.Desktop
> directory. The file might look like this:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Acme Parts Wizard
> Comment=parts database
> Exec=partswiz
> Icon=/usr/local/share/pixmaps/partswiz.png
> Terminal=true
> MultipleArgs=false
> Type=Application
>
>
> >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.
>
> I'm not sure why that is. I just tried it with mc, and it worked fine.
> Using the code I posted, I was able to have mc start automatically in a
> console login or in a terminal window when logging in via gdm. At first I
> tried running it as a background task. That works in a terminal window,
> but not at the console.
>
> Tony
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