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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

also, doing local tinkering (e.g. ~/.profile) might not help when
users start KiCad from the icon.... does it?



On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio
<l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:07:14PM -0800, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
>> This is not so unusual; one of the few uses of globally executed profiles
>> is to run the message-of-the-day. If you do anything more than that you'll
>> probably break something and have a hundred UNIX users cursing you. The
>> best solution I think is to install a setup script which individual users
>> can run; that script in turn should make changes to the user's .bash_rc
>> and .profile files. Such a scheme would be acceptable on a generic UNIX
>> installation (though I wonder how many KiCad users have it installed on
>> a multi-user system).
>
> I know, coming from a Sun background where the startup scripts where
> *heavily* customized (something like doing multiple chrooted environment
> without chroot but only pointing around environment variables)... but no
> MOTD :P
>
> For bonus points: jobs in cron sourced the profile (or cron itself used
> a login shell, I don't remember the details).
>
> OTOH in that enviroment the mouse was only to select text and pasting
> into an xterm; most of the newer freedesktop/LSB stuff is geared toward
> the PC usage i.e. one single user with no system customization
> whatsoever. User which most probably don't even know that a dotfile is
> hidden....
>
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
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