On Monday 03 December 2007 08:34:52 Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:

God morning,

- how would one be able to detect if the script is being started outside of KDE? Can anyone come up with a short hint ? - thank you!

Hi Verner Maybe your script could check with env? Using konsole I get peter@talshiar:~> env | grep KDE KDE_MULTIHEAD=false KDE_NO_IPV6=1 KDE_FULL_SESSION=true KDE_SESSION_UID=1000 peter@talshiar:~> In a text console, nothing shows up. Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hi all, Thanks for the feedback, especially Randall's hints for generalization. Also, I've added already a few lines of code to check if dcop is installed and executable. Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:

Søndag 02 december 2007 16:38 skrev Randall R Schulz:

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Assuming an invocation of this script is to be placed in $HOME/.bash_profile, you might want to gracefully handle the case where the shell is running outside of KDE. That includes on virtual consoles, when connecting remotely via ssh and possible when using screen. I don't know if Gnome uses dcop or something else, so it might fail there and under different desktops and window managers as well.

In short, be prepared for dcop to fail and do nothing (probably silently) in that case.

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Rgds, Stephan. Randall Schulz

God morning,

- how would one be able to detect if the script is being started outside of KDE? Can anyone come up with a short hint ? - thank you! I've made sure that the script is started via the $HOME/.kde/Autostart folder, not in $HOME/.bash_profile or another shell rc file. This makes sure that it is launched only in KDE and that it is launched only once, not with every new shell.

Regards, Stephan. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Stephan Hegel wrote:

Hi all,

Thanks for the feedback, especially Randall's hints for generalization. Also, I've added already a few lines of code to check if dcop is installed and executable.

The best way to learn shell scripting is by looking at other shell scripts which do similar sorts of things. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 03 December 2007 05:29, Stephan Hegel wrote:

Hi all,

Thanks for the feedback, especially Randall's hints for generalization. Also, I've added already a few lines of code to check if dcop is installed and executable.

So now that you've made changes, Patrick's request comes up again (make the script available!). Perhaps you could place the script somewhere accessible to all in its latest form (a server of your own, an entry on the openSUSE Wiki, e.g.). In fact, I think the KDE project itself would allow you to publish it as contributed software. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* Randall R Schulz [12-03-07 20:45]:

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So now that you've made changes, Patrick's request comes up again (make the script available!). Sure, I make it available. Find it below. It's short enough, so I

Hi all, Patrick Shanahan wrote: think I can post it to the mailing list. As mentioned I start it from $HOME/.kde/Autostart to make sure it is started only when KDE is started. It is just a one-liner named "konsoleapps.sh" containing (sleep 5 && $HOME/bin/startkonsoleapps) & .

Or I could make the script available.... Patrick, feel free to do so. And change and adjust it as you like ...

Rgds, Stephan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh ### ### startkonsoleapps ### ### Script to start certain apps in KDE konsole sessions. ### ### Requires the "dcop" utility to be installed and the konsoles must ### be started with the "--script option" to enable extended features ### like sendSession. The sessions must already exist. ### ### Executable(s). DCOP=/opt/kde3/bin/dcop ### Location of startup scripts. KONSOLEAPPS=$HOME/.konsoleapps ### Here we go ... ### Checking for system executables. if [ ! -x $DCOP ] ; then echo "$DCOP doesn't exist or isn't executable." exit 1 fi ### Looking for all konsoles. for i in `$DCOP konsole\*` ; do ### Checking if "sendSession" feature available. if [ `$DCOP $i session-1 functions | grep sendSession | wc -l` -eq 1 ] ; then ### Function sendSession available, continue. ### Looking for all sessions. for j in `$DCOP $i | grep session-` ; do ### What's the name ? NAME=`$DCOP $i $j sessionName` ### If the name matches a predefined session name, launch ### the desired application. if [ -x $KONSOLEAPPS/$NAME ] ; then $DCOP $i $j sendSession "$KONSOLEAPPS/$NAME" fi done else ### Function sendSession not available. echo "Konsole $i not started with the \"--script\" option". fi done exit 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org