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Rakotomandimby Mihamina | 2 Nov 2005 00:26
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cyber cafe

Hi,

A cyber cafe manager is going to renew all his hardware, and he would be
interested in switching to Linux.
I would like to introduce Fedora/GNOME to him.
The only missing thing is the time counter.
If I could find a "time counter", it would be ok.
There would be one user per computer.
All clients coming to the cyber cafe would log in as "computer1" on the
first computer, "computer2" on the second and so on....
I could make a script, or anything that would do something (send some
signal) when the user logs in, and do another thing when he logs out.

So the question is:
- How to make an executable to run when an user logs in ?
- How to make an executable to run when an user logs out ?

Using GNOME on Fedora Core.
Thank you.

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Adam Tauno Williams | 2 Nov 2005 00:28
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Re: cyber cafe

> A cyber cafe manager is going to renew all his hardware, and he would be
> interested in switching to Linux.
> I would like to introduce Fedora/GNOME to him.
> The only missing thing is the time counter.
> If I could find a "time counter", it would be ok.
> There would be one user per computer.
> All clients coming to the cyber cafe would log in as "computer1" on the
> first computer, "computer2" on the second and so on....
> I could make a script, or anything that would do something (send some
> signal) when the user logs in, and do another thing when he logs out.
> So the question is:
> - How to make an executable to run when an user logs in ?
> - How to make an executable to run when an user logs out ?

KLUG (http://www.kalamazoolinux.org) used to help operate a cyber cafe
and we built a management interface and client (Tcl/TK & postgresql) for
LINUX workstations there.  If you pop onto our member's list you can
chat with some of the people who wrote it and they can send you the code
- if you are interested.
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D. Cooper Stevenson | 2 Nov 2005 00:59
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Re: cyber cafe

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 00:26 +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A cyber cafe manager is going to renew all his hardware, and he would be
> interested in switching to Linux.

Outstanding.

> I would like to introduce Fedora/GNOME to him.

Okay.

> The only missing thing is the time counter.
> If I could find a "time counter", it would be ok.

Understandable. 

> There would be one user per computer.
> All clients coming to the cyber cafe would log in as "computer1" on the
> first computer, "computer2" on the second and so on....

[snip]

> So the question is:
> - How to make an executable to run when an user logs in ?
> - How to make an executable to run when an user logs out ?

We know that time tracking is important for your cyber cafe manager.
Implicit in your message are several other important factors to
consider; a few are as follows:
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Matt Johnson | 2 Nov 2005 17:47
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Re: cyber cafe


--- Rakotomandimby Mihamina
<mihamina.rakotomandimby <at> etu.univ-orleans.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A cyber cafe manager is going to renew all his
> hardware, and he would be
> interested in switching to Linux.
> I would like to introduce Fedora/GNOME to him.
> The only missing thing is the time counter.
> If I could find a "time counter", it would be ok.
> There would be one user per computer.

This may be of use:

http://www.ltsp.org/contrib/index.php

Search that page for "cafe" and you'll find a billing
system. I've never used it and suspect it may be of
use if running ltsp thin clients... Which would be
very sensible anyway.

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lestat74 | 4 Nov 2005 14:13

gfloppy issue

I believe it's a known compilation bug but I have found it in cvs too

gcc (GCC) 3.3.6
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This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. 
-DGNOMELOCALEDIR=\""/usr/share/locale"\" 
-DGLADEDIR=\""/usr/share/gnome-utils/glade"\" -DDATADIR=\""/usr/share"\" 
-DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -DORBIT2=1 -pthread 
-I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 
-I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include 
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include 
-I/usr/include/libgnome-2.0 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 
-I/usr/include/libbonobo-2.0 -I/usr/include/gconf/2 
-I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include 
-I/usr/include/bonobo-activation-2.0 -I/usr/include/libgnomeui-2.0 
-I/usr/include/libgnomecanvas-2.0 -I/usr/include/libart-2.0 
-I/usr/include/libbonoboui-2.0 -I/usr/include/gnome-keyring-1 
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libxml2   -DXTHREADS 
-D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 
-I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include 
-I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 
-I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE 
-I/usr/include/hal -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 
-I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include      -g -O2 -MT gfloppy.o -MD -MP -MF 
".deps/gfloppy.Tpo" -c -o gfloppy.o gfloppy.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/gfloppy.Tpo" ".deps/gfloppy.Po"; else rm -f
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Brandon Kuczenski | 6 Nov 2005 20:28

how to focus on desktop automatically if no windows open?

I'm using Gnome 2.10.2 on Debian.  Sometimes I like to use the keyboard 
instead of the mouse to navigate the desktop.  However, if I close a 
window (using, e.g., M-F4) I go into what appears to be a 'no-focus' 
state: pressing the arrow keys, tab key, enter, etc.. doesn't do anything.

I know I can bind a key to "Hide all windows and focus the desktop" in the 
Keyboard Shortcuts dialog; is there any way to focus the desktop by 
default if no windows are open?

-Brandon
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ALLEN, David | 7 Nov 2005 11:54

Text window.

Hi,

I have an annoying problem which is stopping me from running gnome (v2)
instead of CDE on a new batch of (solaris 9) Sun equipment I have just
brought. 

The problem is that in a specific application (UGS ideas v10 ) a highlighted
text field background in CDE is yellow but the text is blue and consequently
can be read OK.

However, on the same machine with no changes, in gnome, the highlighted text
field background is white and the text is yellow! Consequently, the text
cannot be read clearly.  Yellow is the text colour for non-highlighted text.

I should add that all other applications look the same whichever window
software is used. Any suggestions would be most helpful as this is the key
application run on the machines.

Thanks in advance for any help.

David

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Erik Forsberg | 8 Nov 2005 17:08
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Adding icons to the desktop, without placing them in ~/Desktop.

Hi!

I'd like to add icons to the desktop of users, without copying
.desktop-files to ~/Desktop of the user. I need to do it while
running as the user, and the icons can be different for every user, so
system-wide directories are not an option. Well, they could be, if
there is a way to configure which system-wide directories to look in
for each user. 

KDE has a way to do this, you can copy .desktop-files into
~/.kde/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop, where they are harder to find "by
mistake" for the user. 

Is this possible in Gnome? 

Cheers,
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Heyman, William S | 9 Nov 2005 03:40
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Metacity right click menu

Is there a way to edit or restrict the menu that appears when you right click on the desktop?
 
I'm working on designing a system being built on Solaris 9 which gives us the option of using either the CDE or a gnome-2.0 desktop. We would prefer the later but need to be able to severely restrict what the user can do (which precludes the "New Terminal" menu item).
 
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Olav Vitters | 9 Nov 2005 08:03

Re: Metacity right click menu

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 09:40:02PM -0500, Heyman, William S wrote:
> Is there a way to edit or restrict the menu that appears when you right
> click on the desktop?

Right clicks on the desktop are actually handled by Nautilus, not
Metacity. If you do not get a response here, ask them.

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