Customize KDE right-lick menu

Hi,

I just downloaded the latest Slackware distribution disks and am running
KDE. I am kind of a novice at this, so I'm hoping someone can exlpain to me
how to do this. On Solaris when I right-click I get a menu with xterms on
to different machines. What I'd like to do on Linux/Slackware/KDE is to set
it up so that I get their current menu that they have on the right click,
plus a divider, and then my options to xterm into all of the machines that I
need to use.

Any idea how?

Thanks,

Josh

Josh Kalish <8yJFc.8597$MT5.6303@nwrdny01.gnilink.net>:
Hi,

> Hi,
>
> I just downloaded the latest Slackware distribution disks and am
> running
> KDE. I am kind of a novice at this, so I'm hoping someone can exlpain
> to me
> how to do this. On Solaris when I right-click I get a menu with
> xterms on
> to different machines. What I'd like to do on Linux/Slackware/KDE is
> to set it up so that I get their current menu that they have on the
> right click, plus a divider, and then my options to xterm into all of
> the machines that I need to use.
>
> Any idea how?

Souns like you need to look into servicemenus
http://developer.kde.org/documentati...vicemenus.html



--
D. Johnson

Thanks for the quick answer. 2 follow up questions:

1. Can I get this to work without any context? In other words, even if I am
just clicking on the open screen I would like to be able to get up my xterm
menu items. It's not an action that is associated with a file type.

2. This may be more of a general Unix question: How do I set up the command
so that it will launch an xterm hosted on another machine? For example, say
I am on nyrat as josh but want to have a menu option that would open up an
exterm on nymouse as jkailsh, password xxx.

Thanks,

Josh


"D. Johnson" <notme@blah.invalid> wrote in message
news:40e78e0d$0$177$edfadb0f@dtext01.news.tele.dk. ..
> Josh Kalish <8yJFc.8597$MT5.6303@nwrdny01.gnilink.net>:
> Hi,
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just downloaded the latest Slackware distribution disks and am
> > running
> > KDE. I am kind of a novice at this, so I'm hoping someone can exlpain
> > to me
> > how to do this. On Solaris when I right-click I get a menu with
> > xterms on
> > to different machines. What I'd like to do on Linux/Slackware/KDE is
> > to set it up so that I get their current menu that they have on the
> > right click, plus a divider, and then my options to xterm into all of
> > the machines that I need to use.
> >
> > Any idea how?
>
> Souns like you need to look into servicemenus
> http://developer.kde.org/documentati...vicemenus.html
>
>
>
> --
> D. Johnson

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 16:24:10 GMT, Josh Kalish wrote:

> How do I set up the command
> so that it will launch an xterm hosted on another machine? For example, say
> I am on nyrat as josh but want to have a menu option that would open up an
> exterm on nymouse as jkailsh, password xxx.


man ssh

Josh Kalish said the following, on 07/04/04 12:24:
> Thanks for the quick answer. 2 follow up questions:
>
> 1. Can I get this to work without any context? In other words, even if I am
> just clicking on the open screen I would like to be able to get up my xterm
> menu items. It's not an action that is associated with a file type.
>

Yes. Right-click on the desktop background, and choose "Configure
Desktop". Under "Behavior", you can set actions for the mouse buttons;
one of the possibilities is "Custom Menu".

> 2. This may be more of a general Unix question: How do I set up the command
> so that it will launch an xterm hosted on another machine? For example, say
> I am on nyrat as josh but want to have a menu option that would open up an
> exterm on nymouse as jkailsh, password xxx.
>
>
> [snip]

What you are wanting to do here is to start a terminal session on
another machine, if I am understanding you correctly. There are
different ways to do this, including 'telnet' and 'rlogin', but for
security reasons I strongly suggest you look into 'ssh/Openssh' (secure
shell). That will set up a session in a terminal window.

--
Rich Gibbs
rgibbs@alumni.princeton.edu

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On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 16:24:10 GMT, Josh Kalish
<joshua.nospam.kalish@verizon.nospam.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick answer. 2 follow up questions:
>
> 1. Can I get this to work without any context? In other words, even if I am
> just clicking on the open screen I would like to be able to get up my xterm
> menu items. It's not an action that is associated with a file type.
>
> 2. This may be more of a general Unix question: How do I set up the command
> so that it will launch an xterm hosted on another machine? For example, say
> I am on nyrat as josh but want to have a menu option that would open up an
> exterm on nymouse as jkailsh, password xxx.
>
xterm -e ssh user@hostname
or
ssh -X user@hostname xterm
ssh -X can be used with any X program, but X forwarding must be turned
on in both machines (see config files in /etc/ssh).


--
The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that's all it
needs to be.

Help,

I don't think this works.

I want this to work on the empty desktop screen.

Thanks,

Josh

"Bill Marcum" <bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent> wrote in message
news:okvnr1-hmn.ln1@don.localnet...
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.admin.]
> On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 16:24:10 GMT, Josh Kalish
> <joshua.nospam.kalish@verizon.nospam.net> wrote:
> > Thanks for the quick answer. 2 follow up questions:
> >
> > 1. Can I get this to work without any context? In other words, even if
I am
> > just clicking on the open screen I would like to be able to get up my
xterm
> > menu items. It's not an action that is associated with a file type.
> >
> > 2. This may be more of a general Unix question: How do I set up the
command
> > so that it will launch an xterm hosted on another machine? For example,
say
> > I am on nyrat as josh but want to have a menu option that would open up
an
> > exterm on nymouse as jkailsh, password xxx.
> >
> xterm -e ssh user@hostname
> or
> ssh -X user@hostname xterm
> ssh -X can be used with any X program, but X forwarding must be turned
> on in both machines (see config files in /etc/ssh).
>
>
> --
> The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that's all it
> needs to be.