also, doing local tinkering (e.g. ~/.profile) might not help when users start KiCad from the icon.... does it?
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:07:14PM -0800, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: >> This is not so unusual; one of the few uses of globally executed profiles >> is to run the message-of-the-day. If you do anything more than that you'll >> probably break something and have a hundred UNIX users cursing you. The >> best solution I think is to install a setup script which individual users >> can run; that script in turn should make changes to the user's .bash_rc >> and .profile files. Such a scheme would be acceptable on a generic UNIX >> installation (though I wonder how many KiCad users have it installed on >> a multi-user system). > > I know, coming from a Sun background where the startup scripts where > *heavily* customized (something like doing multiple chrooted environment > without chroot but only pointing around environment variables)... but no > MOTD :P > > For bonus points: jobs in cron sourced the profile (or cron itself used > a login shell, I don't remember the details). > > OTOH in that enviroment the mouse was only to select text and pasting > into an xterm; most of the newer freedesktop/LSB stuff is geared toward > the PC usage i.e. one single user with no system customization > whatsoever. User which most probably don't even know that a dotfile is > hidden.... > > -- > Lorenzo Marcantonio > Logos Srl > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
