Sorry for the response delay, holiday got e out of whack!

Using the "prototype" method worked great!  

thanks Jorg!!!




-----Original Message-----
>From: Jörg Barfurth <[email protected]>
>Sent: May 28, 2010 9:32 AM
>To: Paul Whitener <[email protected]>, SunRay-Users mailing list 
><[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] kiosk on RHEL5 question
>
>Paul Whitener schrieb:
>> Greetings all,
>> 
>> I have setup kiosk on RHEL5 to auto-login and it works well.  I want to 
>> populate the desktop with a couple of shortcuts each time the session is 
>> cycled.
>> 
>
>What kind of kiosk session are you using? Are you actually starting a 
>regular (GNOME?) desktop?
>
>> What directory should I put the shortcuts in to get them on the kiosk 
>> desktop?
>> 
>
>That depends on your session.
>
>For a GNOME session you'd have to get .desktop files for the 
>applications created in  $HOME/Desktop7 (where $HOME is the home of the 
>kiosk user account).
>
>One way to do that is to create a 'prototype' directory (if you don't 
>already have one). Then you can put .desktop files into a 
><your-prototype>/Desktop/ directory.
>
>You can also use the KIOSK_SESSION_APPLAUNCHER setting to provide a 
>script that dynamically creates desktop files for application list 
>entries. This also needs to be supported in the session script. This 
>approach is not well documented. You could take a look at the Solaris 
>'JDS3' kiosk session type to see how it is done.
>
>- Jörg
>
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