On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:57 pm, Salane KIng wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:45 am, Parzival Herzog wrote: > > > I am a Windows habituated person learning to use Linux and KDE, currently > > I am having the following problem, and neither KDE docs nor Google can > > shed any light on it: > > > > I am trying to automatically start the spambayes proxy server (a Python > > script), at login. I thought that placing an entry in the > > ~/.kde/Autostart directory would do the trick. So I created a "Link to > > Application" in this directory. I tried several things as the "Command", > > > > 1, the full path to the python script that implemets the spambayes > > server 2, python (the full path to the script) > > 3, a bash script containing a cd to the spambayes server working > > directory (wherein it finds a configuration file) and the command (2) > > above. > > In all of these cases the "Run in terminal" option is checked. > > > > Then I double click the link to test this. A terminal window briefly > > appears and then disappears. (BTW, if I type command (1), or (2) above > > in a Konsole, the server always starts and there are no problems) > > > > I would like (a) to be able to have the terminal window not close on the > > failure I describe above, so I can read the Python traceback and > > possibly diagnose the problem; and (b) be able to set the working > > directory that the server is started in on automatic start. > > > > I have tried using "-i" as a Terminal option, assuming that it would set > > the bash -i (interactive) option, and thus bash would not terminate, but > > this has no detectable effect. > > > > There seems to be no documentation or help tips whatsoever about the > > Execute tab of this dialog, so what the "Panel Embedding" section means > > is absolutely obscure, and what the "Terminal options" would be is also > > unclear. So (c) I would like to know what these data in the dialog are > > supposed to do. > > > > Can anyone help me to accomplish my goals, or point me to more detailed > > documentation that might help in this case? > > > > Thanks, Parzival > > ___________________________________________________ > > . > > Account management: http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > > I hate to say this but the do not close option is in kde > 3.1.93(kde3.2alpha2) under advanced options. I suppose that it could be > in 3.1 but if you haven't found it it probably is not there. 3.1.93 is an > alpha version of kde and still is a work in progress so beware of using in > production or critical areas. I have been running it and I still get the > occasional crash, but it works pretty good for an alpha. > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. have you tried konsole option --noclose perhaps as an option command ___________________________________________________ . Account management: http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.