Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:57:10 +0100 From: Tino Engel <elrap@web.de> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop Message-ID: <47507926.5010103@web.de> In-Reply-To: <474FD863.2060004@gmail.com> References: <474FD863.2060004@gmail.com>
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Aryeh M. Friedman schrieb: > I almost always login into aryeh (xfce via xdm). Both web and dev > require the use of variuous X applications but I don't want to logout > and login back in and/or have to invoke the app from the cmd line > (i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY :0; app cmd line)... I am looking for a > way to make it so I can launch apps from a desktop panel and/or icon > on the desktop and make it ask what user to run it under (or somehow > or another make it aware that not everything is to be ruin as > "aryeh")... ideas? > > - -- > Aryeh M. Friedman > > Not very sophisticated, but an idea. Associate commands as follows assigned to an icons. xterm -e userwrapper.sh <command> An userwrapper.sh is like this: #!/bin/sh echo "Enter username for $1" read USERNAME ssh -l $USERNAME $1 Rg, Tino
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