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 > >-- >Joerg Barfurth >Software Engineer mailto:[email protected] >Desktop Technology http://blogs.sun.com/joergb/ >Thin Client Software http://www.sun.com/software/sunray/ >Sun Microsystems GmbH http://www.sun.com/software/vdi/ > >Sitz der Gesellschaft: >Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten >Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 >Geschaeftsfuehrer: Jürgen Kunz > _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
