On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 don't think I did it that way. IIRC, I set the menu as her shell in /etc/passwd. It obviously wasn't the most elegant way to do it, or even the best way... it was just the quickest way I could think of at the time... of course meaning to get back to it one of these days... and then that elusive "round-tuit" never seems to surface. ;-) > 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? I don't have her machine handy at the moment. - Steve
