linux desktop neutral startup programs...

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:53:52PM -0400, Matthew Nicholson wrote:
> The issues is, we use a printing accounting system called paper cut,
> which we don't currently have on our linux boxes. this is because simply
> adding them to the default gnome start up, wouldn't work, since not
> everyone uses gnome. Another solution is not to have the program auto
> start, but rather have a shortcut on the desktop a user can click on.
> once again, this would have to be desktop neutral, and, also, the user
> home directories are nfs automount, meaning we cannot do any of this
> though dotfiles etc in the user home dir.

You're sorta out of luck, because every window manager is different.

If they present a menu system, they probably comply with the
freedesktop.org standard for menu items and/or desktop items. GNOME,
KDE and XFCE comply. Dr. Mbogo's Funky Scheme-based Window Manager And
Bulk Erase Utility is probably not compliant.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/

There are tools for Ubuntu to add such entries; I forget what
they're called.

-dsr-

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