Hello, I have a pretty simple shell script that I threw together. Its an if then type of script to check for a file in a users home directory. So what Im wondering is how to have that script run everytime a user logs into KDE.
This is on SUSE Enterprise Desktop 10. I have put the script in ~/.kde/Autostart and runs perfectly as expected. However, this is a multi-user system (couple hundred users). And linking /bin/program.sh to everyones ~/Autostart is not really an option.
Ive read similar threads about putting it in /etc/rc.... But Im not really looking for it to start on system startup, just KDE login. So My question is, where would I put this script to make this happen globally?
Thanks in advance for any help!!

You could try /usr/share/autostart.

Edit: I read too fast. Previous post deleted.

Maybe you could put that in startkde or whatever kdm/gdm calls. Sounds a little unclean, I agree, but might work. What would be the problem with symlinking or even copying the script to ~/.kde/Autostart?

Well, like I said, putting it in ~/.kde/Autostart works great when I did it for myself. However, how would I do that for everyone when there is over a couple hundred users?

On the other post, I think your referring to /opt/kde3/share/autostart and I did try putting it in there, but since users have already logged in before, it doesn't pull from there any more correct?

Thanks for the replies! Any more ideas would greatly be appreciated.

To have the file in all user home dirs, do the following in /home:

for i in `ls` ; do cp /bin/scriptname $i/.kde/Autostart ; done

This is a rather simple example that should work flawlessly if there are only directories in /home. You could substitute cp with ln -s if you wanted to symlink rathe rthan copy.