Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: but I don't want to logout and login back in and/or have to invoke the app from the cmd line (i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY :0; app cmd line)... I am looking for a way to make it so I can launch apps from a desktop panel and/or icon on the desktop and make it ask what user to run it under (or somehow or another make it aware that not everything is to be ruin as aryeh) Even though not very flexible or elegant (in the long run) what I ended up doing was just sticking a backgrounded gnome-panel into the .cshrc for each acct - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHUUQB358R5LPuPvsRAjDzAKCjg+kh4WXmIS6A+TQiw1wYOQbwDgCbBSYd 3v5Q+O+7CPH2+aPnG7qh/qk= =hCFf -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop
--On November 30, 2007 4:31:15 AM -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have several sub accounts (for specialized purposes not really a part of an other account) which I do my work basically I have: aryeh -- my personal account web -- maintain my web site dev -- development/testing of software dep -- seperation of development and production code I almost always login into aryeh (xfce via xdm). Both web and dev require the use of variuous X applications but I don't want to logout and login back in and/or have to invoke the app from the cmd line (i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY :0; app cmd line)... I am looking for a way to make it so I can launch apps from a desktop panel and/or icon on the desktop and make it ask what user to run it under (or somehow or another make it aware that not everything is to be ruin as aryeh)... ideas? Make the commandline for executing the app (in the properties of the icon) su - web /usr/local/bin/app? I would think, when you launch it, you'd be prompted for the password and then the app would run. At least I've used that technique with sudo to run gui apps as root. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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RW wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:31:15 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman
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but I don't want to logout and login back in and/or have to
invoke the app from the cmd line (i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY
:0; app cmd line)... I am looking for a way to make it so I can
launch apps from a desktop panel and/or icon on the desktop and
make it ask what user to run it under (or somehow or another make
it aware that not everything is to be ruin as aryeh)
What about adding the magical incantation to a menu item?
You'd type it once, and then it'd be clicky-clicky after that.
Dunno if it'd work, but I use this under XFCE to set up remote
connections via ssh, ('Eterm -foo -bar -e ssh somehost'), rdesktop
('rdesktop somehost') and running Yet Another OS's terminal app
via Wine, which is way too long a string to remember and type
here.
KDK
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Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:21:46 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What I've done in the past is create extra categories in the KDE menu with the names of the other users, and then copy selected applications under there, and change their Run as a different user settings. Except I don't run kde and don't plan to (way too top heavy) AFAIK none of the features I mentioned are unique to KDE Just looked through the options for xfce and see no mention of running as a diff user - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHUEH+358R5LPuPvsRAvv+AJ9lg2CXtwdAHiFL8SHZtE+mNgMzagCg1OOH ldcLqoGTJnnKwGsL5B+b59Q= =vq0y -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:31:15 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I don't want to logout and login back in and/or have to invoke the app from the cmd line (i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY :0; app cmd line)... I am looking for a way to make it so I can launch apps from a desktop panel and/or icon on the desktop and make it ask what user to run it under (or somehow or another make it aware that not everything is to be ruin as aryeh) What I've done in the past is create extra categories in the KDE menu with the names of the other users, and then copy selected applications under there, and change their Run as a different user settings. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:21:46 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What I've done in the past is create extra categories in the KDE menu with the names of the other users, and then copy selected applications under there, and change their Run as a different user settings. Except I don't run kde and don't plan to (way too top heavy) AFAIK none of the features I mentioned are unique to KDE ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop
Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have several sub accounts (for specialized purposes not really a part of an other account) which I do my work basically I have: aryeh -- my personal account web -- maintain my web site dev -- development/testing of software dep -- seperation of development and production code I almost always login into aryeh (xfce via xdm). Both web and dev require the use of variuous X applications but I don't want to logout and login back in and/or have to invoke the app from the cmd line (i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY :0; app cmd line)... I am looking for a way to make it so I can launch apps from a desktop panel and/or icon on the desktop and make it ask what user to run it under (or somehow or another make it aware that not everything is to be ruin as aryeh)... ideas? An easy approach is to use Xnest to open a nested X session as user dev or whatever. You can find examples in ``OnLamp'' columns, if I remember well. Another way is to wrap is to use SSH's X connexion transfert, you can wrap your applications in scripts like this: `ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] $PROGRAM' A more complex approach is to design a way to `pass' DISPLAY information and XAUTH(1) information to your alternative accounts. You have to do it yourself (I guess) and still must wrap application into suitable scripts. Hope this helps. -- Cheers, Michaël ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:31:15 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I don't want to logout and login back in and/or have to invoke the app from the cmd line (i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY :0; app cmd line)... I am looking for a way to make it so I can launch apps from a desktop panel and/or icon on the desktop and make it ask what user to run it under (or somehow or another make it aware that not everything is to be ruin as aryeh) What I've done in the past is create extra categories in the KDE menu with the names of the other users, and then copy selected applications under there, and change their Run as a different user settings. Except I don't run kde and don't plan to (way too top heavy) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHUDia358R5LPuPvsRAjjZAJ9BCYivi8DyreomWMIrvWbWvYPNFQCg4uAH wjXGyE5yknVzfW6WAiPjX3I= =yhoN -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop
Aryeh M. Friedman schrieb: I almost always login into aryeh (xfce via xdm). Both web and dev require the use of variuous X applications but I don't want to logout and login back in and/or have to invoke the app from the cmd line (i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY :0; app cmd line)... I am looking for a way to make it so I can launch apps from a desktop panel and/or icon on the desktop and make it ask what user to run it under (or somehow or another make it aware that not everything is to be ruin as aryeh)... ideas? - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Not very sophisticated, but an idea. Associate commands as follows assigned to an icons. xterm -e userwrapper.sh command An userwrapper.sh is like this: #!/bin/sh echo Enter username for $1 read USERNAME ssh -l $USERNAME $1 Rg, Tino ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
