Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote:
If I just have "Exec=/usr/bin/xterm" in failsafe.desktop I can get the xterm to appear with just a normal prompt, with no automatic script execution.
If I put "Exec=/usr/bin/xterm -e ssh guest@server" it pops up a second password entry but then kicks out after the password is entered.
If I put anything else in the Exec field, I just get a regular gnome desktop.
I'm not sure what else to try, or how to get the script to run in the xterm automatically... there's probably something really silly that I'm missing, but at this point I've been staring at this so long I'm just not seeing it.
You could write a simple script that does all you need and just call this script via the "Exec=..." line - this is actually what I do in my failsafe.desktop file - although I don't know if this will help in your case
James Pearson