Hi, Thanks for your kind response now i am able to see Application luncher in web based admin GUI but still i am unable to open the application in kiosk mode. i want to open /usr/bin/oowriter (open office) can you please guide me from step one to end how should i do that.
i will be thankful to you. Regards Zafran Elahi On 9/13/07, Jörg Barfurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Zafran Elahi schrieb: > > hi, > > > > can any one guide me that how can i configure Session descriptor > > with application launching option in kiosk mode. > > > > That should be documented in the kiosk man pages, particularly the > session.conf man page. Unfortunately I just recently noticed, that this > documentation is incomplete. > > To support an application launching option, you need to add a > KIOSK_SESSION_APPLAUNCHER key to your session descriptor. The value of > that key is the path to a launcher executable, which is responsible for > configuring the session to launch an application in a specified way. > Usually this is implemented as a script. This launcher script is invoked > for every application list entry with 4 arguments, which are the > components of the applist entry (as documented in the kiosk man page): > > arg1: exec|desc - type indicator > > arg2: full path or short name of the application executable or > descriptor (depending on type) > > arg3: auto|critical|user - start mode > > arg4: command line arguments to be passed to the application > executable > > For examples look at the 'applauncher' scripts that are available in the > jds3 and cde sessions on Solaris (install pathes are > /etc/opt/SUNWkio/sessions/<sessin>/applauncher). > > The predefined Solaris scripts standardize on using application > descriptors, so for 'exec' entries, they synthesize an application > descriptor in the session HOME. Once you have an application descriptor, > you can launch the associated application using the > /opt/SUNWkio/lib/kioskapplaunch helper. That helper supports the -c > option to launch a process as critical process. > > You can also take the complementary approach and work with executable > pathes directly, extracting the KIOSK_APP_EXEC value from the > application descriptor for the application. To launch an executable as a > critical process, use the /opt/SUNWkio/lib/kioskcrit helper. > > For entries with start mode 'critical' or 'auto', the launcher can start > the executable directly or arrange for entries to be started by a > session manager (if available). For example the JDS and CDE applauncher > scripts add these applications to a session or sessionetc file, so that > they are launched by the session manager later on. > > For entries with start mode user (and optionally for auto) the launcher > needs to configure them as user-specific menu entries or other form of > launcher (e.g. desktop icon). How this is done depends on your session > and its configuration and user interfaces. > > Disclaimer: Note that the mentioned helpers (and also the > /opt/SUNWkio/lib/utils.sh script library) used by the predefined Solaris > scripts are currently not documented interfaces of Kiosk Mode. While we > plan to promote them to public and supported interfaces sometime in the > future, they may undergo some changes by that time. > > - Jörg > > > -- > Joerg Barfurth Phone: +49 40 23646662 > Software Engineer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Desktop Technology > Thin Client Software http://www.sun.com/software/sunray/ > Sun Microsystems GmbH http://www.sun.com/software/javadesktopsystem/ > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: > Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten > Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 > Geschaeftsfuehrer: Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > -- Regards, Zafran Elahi
_______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
