Steve wrote: > > Maybe you'd like a setup like I did for my wife's > laptop. She logs in and is presented with an ASCII > menu of the things she commonly uses. Hitting a letter > plus <enter> starts an application in pure X. No > window manager, no desktop. She has a screen full > of Word Perfect, e.g., and nothing else. > Unfortunately, once she exits WP, she's back at > her login prompt, so she has to give her password > everytime she wants to switch programs. I haven't > had time to work around that,
Where does your menu script come in? At the bottom of ~/.profile? I would have thought that a looping script could call WordPerfect (with X) and return to the loop when it exits. Perhaps you have an stray command somewhere (break? exec?) that is terminating your loop? Cheers, Steven
