Just what I needed Pete! Thanks :)

> Nigel,
>    I have a little wrapper script to stop the double (triple/quadruple!)
> clicking. You can take a look at
> http://www.elbnet.com/libsys/files/mozilla-start
>
>    You could easily add a similar lock file check to your little
> hourglass script.
>
> Pete Billson
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> nigel barker wrote:
>> This little script was given to me by friendly people at just linux
>> forums
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> xsetroot -cursor_name watch &
>> konqueror /mnt/student/ -geometry 600x500 &
>> sleep 5
>> xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
>> exit
>>
>> when the user clicks the icon on the icewm toolbar:
>> the wait (watch) cursor appears
>> the app is launched (in this case konqueror with some parameters)
>> then after sleeping for a while, the cursor changes back.
>>
>> you can play with the sleep to get the desired effect on your system.
>> best
>> to have a long wait to prevent over clicking at busy times.
>>
>> I have the script saved in /etc/icewm and its executable
>>
>> the /etc/icewm/toolbar file is edited to point to the script
>>
>> this only works if the cursor moves over blank desktop. if it stays on
>> the
>> toolbar, or moves over an open window, then the normal pointer appears.
>>
>>
>> I would really like to stop multiple launches. Let me know if you get
>> any
>> good answers to your second point.
>>
>>
>>
>>>G'day,
>>>
>>>I've been toying with LTSP for years and it looks like I'm finally going
>>>to get to deploy it for real. Before I do though I have two questions
>>>that didn't get any good hits in the archives but I'm sure that
>>>experienced LTSP'ers will no doubt have solutions.
>>>
>>>1. I've decided to run with Icewm to keep things as fast as possible.
>>>However there doesn't appear to be any feedback to the user on
>>>application startup (like the hourglass cursor). I know of the Xalf
>>>project and was going to use that but it appears to be at end of life
>>>because there is a new application notification standard that Gnome/KDE
>>>support but Ice doesn't. I'm open to using a different window manager
>>>and have installed Fvwm (but disappointed with it's look and feel, and
>>>not sure that I want to spend the yards working out how to change it
>>>seeing as it also doesn't appear to provide a busy feed back). Someone
>>>else has suggested that the cursor is not necessary as the cpu monitor
>>>in the Icewm task bar activates when the user launches and app but this
>>>is not really that good and goes off when other users do stuff. I also
>>>don't want the constant network traffic that the cpu thing requries.
>>>
>>>2. How can I restrict the number of applications that a user launches to
>>>a reasonable amount? The users are being moved from a PC environment
>>>where they seem to be in the habit of trying to get the most many
>>>applications iconified into the task bar. I would think that half a
>>>dozen applications per user would be heaps.
>>>
>>>TIA's
>>>
>>>Pete
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
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