Hello. I set up a computer in a homeless shelter, with access to the
internet. It's KDE, with launchers on the desktop (I find that people
with little computer experience do not like the start button; so, a
set up reminiscent of a Windows 3.11 desktop is best, where everything
is plain to
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:29:08AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hello. I set up a computer in a homeless shelter, with access to the
internet. It's KDE, with launchers on the desktop (I find that people
with little computer experience do not like the start button; so, a
set up reminiscent
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Is there a way to have applications that are opening ignore subsequent
requests to open?
Some well behaved window managers do this. For example, windowmaker can
be set to grey out the button used to launch an app while the app is
running.
I don't know if it's possible to
On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 09:29 -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hello. I set up a computer in a homeless shelter, with access to the
internet. It's KDE, with launchers on the desktop (I find that people
with little computer experience do not like the start button; so, a
set up reminiscent of a
Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello. I set up a computer in a homeless shelter, with access to the
Bravo. :-)
One problem, though, is some people feel that to press the mouse more
will speed up the opening of an application (like Firefox, for
example.) They'll repeatedly press
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Is there a way to have applications that are opening ignore subsequent
requests to open?
Mark
Using Sarge here. May be different if you have Etch...
Right-click on the icon.
Click on Properties.
Open the application tab.
Open Advanced Options.
At the bottom there
Mark Grieveson wrote:
One problem, though, is some people feel that to press the mouse more
will speed up the opening of an application (like Firefox, for
example.) They'll repeatedly press the mouse, perhaps thirty times,
while the program is opening. Then, they'll report to me that the
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:12:00AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
Mark Grieveson wrote:
One problem, though, is some people feel that to press the mouse more
will speed up the opening of an application (like Firefox, for
example.) They'll repeatedly press the mouse, perhaps thirty times,
Is there a way to have applications that are opening ignore subsequent
requests to open?
Sure. Change the icon to run a wrapper shell script which checks
first to see if the binary's running. The script would grep the
process table:
#!/bin/sh
#
if [ $(/bin/ps fax |
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Is there a way to have applications that are opening ignore
subsequent requests to open?
Mark
Using Sarge here. May be different if you have Etch...
Right-click on the icon.
Click on Properties. Open the application tab.
Open Advanced Options.
At the bottom there is
You're probably not going to be able to fix this social problem through
technological means. Probably going to need to educate your users about
proper use.
Neither they, nor I, have the patience for that, though. Hence, my
quest for a technological fix.
Mark
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