Bug 86280
| Summary: | unable to launch arbitrary progs with args at login time | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Landon Curt Noll <redhat-mail> |
| Component: | kdebase | Assignee: | Petr Rockai <prockai> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | mitr |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-03-11 13:21:35 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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See ~/.kde/Autostart. I'm not sure how to open this from the GUI though. Thanks Miloslav, for your clarification. The issue with this enhancement request IS the GUI. "Power users" can create files under ~/.kde/Autostart by hand, but not by means of the GUI. Hey, I didn't say it is not in the GUI. I just honestly don't remember where it is because I'm not using KDE nowadays. I'm *sure* that there was a GUI way to open this folder at some point in the past though. I suppose if you need to write shell scripts to be ran on login time, you can probably open the Autostart folder too. However, i leave this on upstream decision. Closing as UPSTREAM. (Note: for konsole, you can probably fix this by saving sessions that have ssh as their command and open those sessions and log out, you should get them back on login via session restoration). |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: Under the most up2date KDE from RH8.0, one does not seem to have the ability to launch programs with arguments at login time. One can save a current KDE desktop environment but that is not sufficient. Consider the konsole. KDE will preserve the location of a konsole window, but one does not have the ability to supply an -e command as well. We need to launch a number of windows at login time where the application needs additional arguments. For example: konsole -e /usr/bin/ssh remote.host konsole -e /usr/bin/tail --retry --follow=name \ --max-unchanged-stats=61 /some/log.file /usr/local/bin/some-x11-app args ... Unless I have missed something somewhere, the current KDE bluecurve setup does not give one the ability to launch any program with args at login time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdebase-3.0.3-14 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.try to launch a konsole with the arguments: konsole -e /usr/bin/tail --retry --follow=name /tmp/foobar 2. 3. Actual Results: KDE does not give you the ability Expected Results: Something under Preferences will allow you to enter commands for KDE to execute on login. Additional info: Had this ability been in place, then a work-a-round for bug #86278 would have been possible. One could have simply added /usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui to the startup command list ...