How to Run an Application only for one User

[bbenn]

Hi,

 

In my MDK+Icewm I have 2 users.

 

Root

 

User1

 

I'd like to get the Apps idesk & ivman avaialble only i f I log on as user1.

 

I don't want these two apps available in system wide.

 

Anybody knows how to do this please?

 

Ben

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Sure. Place the executable in in User1's /home/User1/bin directory. (If it is not there, you can create the directory with this command:

 

mkdir /home/User1/bin

 

Then in that user's /home/User1/.bash_profile add that directory to the PATH variable or if the 'export PATH' line is not there, add it like this:

 

export PATH=$PATH:/home/User1/bin

 

I am not at my Linux box right now, but I think .bash_profile is where you add it.

[Aomighty]

If not, it'll be .bashrc, but it should be pretty easy. This kind of thing is where Linux shines.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

I am now at my Linux box and here is my ~/.bash_profile:

 

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_04
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

export PATH
export JAVA_HOME
unset USERNAME

[bbenn]

Thanks guys, it did worked. If I can ask another Q

 

How do I get idesk to start after xwindows started (startx) ?

 

I put "idesk " in xinitrc but it made the system went crazy

 

i added "idesk" to the end od local.rc and it didn't do anything

 

where is the best palce for this?

 

Thanks

 

Ben

[Steve Scrimpshire]

For fluxbox, I put it in ~/.fluxbox/startup. Make sure you put it above:

exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox

and put it in there as

idesk &

or the system will hang. What window manager/desktop environment are you using?

[pmpatrick]

There's several ways to do it but I would try editing /usr/X11R6/bin/starticewm first to something like this:

 

#!/bin/bash
# JMD: add icewm-desktop so that icewm can be integrated with rox, dfm,
# or another program that adds icons to the desktop
<insert path to idesk> &
if [ -e /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm-desktop ];then
 /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm-desktop
else
 /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm-session
fi

 

Make sure to put the "&" after the path to idesk in the above. This is a direct edit of the starticewm script on LE2005. As noted in the comments above, you can also create your own icewm startup script and call it icewm-desktop and place it in /usr/X11R6/bin/. That would probably look something like this:

 

#!/bin/bash
<path to idesk> &
<path to any other program you want to autostart> &
/usr/X11R6/bin/icewm

 

I'm not sure of the distinction between "icewm" and "icewm-session". You might want to try both in your icewm-desktop script.

[bbenn]

Thank you very much.

 

I'll try this soon as I get home.

 

Ben

[bbenn]

Thanks guys below bit worked. Most of my problems sloved.

 

#!/bin/bash

# JMD: add icewm-desktop so that icewm can be integrated with rox, dfm,

# or another program that adds icons to the desktop

idesk &

if [ -e /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm-desktop ];then

/usr/X11R6/bin/icewm-desktop

else

/usr/X11R6/bin/icewm-session

fi