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List:       kde
Subject:    RE: kvt startup script?
From:       Randy Shipp <RShipp () advparadigm ! com>
Date:       1999-10-25 18:59:10
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Thanks!  I wound up doing it in a roundabout way...logged onto my
workstation as root and modified the properties on the link.  Thanks for the
reply!

Randy...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	a.finch@lancaster.ac.uk [SMTP:a.finch@lancaster.ac.uk]
> Sent:	Monday, October 25, 1999 10:38 AM
> To:	KDE general mailing list
> Subject:	Re: kvt startup script?
> 
> 
> 
>  Funny you should ask that, I finally cracked it last week.
> 
>  edit 
> 
> /opt/kde/share/applnk/Utilities/kvt.kdelnk     
> 
> and change the line that starts
> 
> Exec=kvt 
> adding the option -ls which makes it a login script
> 
> e.g.
> Exec=kvt -tn vt100 -vt_size huge -sl 500 -ls -caption "%c" %i %m
> 
> 
> kvt -help tells you what else you can try in the options, the default is
> not to
> run as a login script, so .profile is not executed.
> 
>  It baffled me for ages as all the linux books say .profile should be run
> but
> it  isn't. Lots of newbie users who get linux+kde out of the box from
> Caldera
> (for example) will no doubt fall into the same trap.
> 
> 
>            Alex Finch
>       
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