[K12OSN] gcompris, childsplay, tuxtype in windows

[Huck]

or could we just teach the students/staff how to open a terminal and 
TYPE, 'childsplay --window' ??

sorry I'm a CLI guy ;)

Matt Oquist wrote:
> I've recently been told that folks are having trouble running
> gcompris, childsplay, and tuxtype on thin clients because the
> default fullscreen modes don't always work, and editing the menus
> system-wide is proving to be a burden.
> 
> Here are a couple of ways to address this problem:
> 1. (for Gnome, not sure about KDE but I expect it's similar if not
>    identical...?)
>    Edit /usr/share/applications/<application-name>.desktop and change
>    the "Exec" line to include the necessary argument.
>    For example, edit fedora-childsplay.desktop to have the following
>    line:
>    Exec=childsplay --window
> 2. create an application wrapper script
>    This isn't the preferred way to solve this problem, as it will at
>    least break on upgrade, if not break the upgrade.
>    This involves moving the actual application over and putting
>    a same-name wrapper script in its place, so the menu option will
>    execute the wrapper script, which will in turn execute the
>    newly-renamed original application with the requisite argument:
>    $ su - (or "sudo su -" for Ubuntu)
>    $ cd /usr/bin/
>    $ mv gcompris gcompris.original
>    $ gedit gcompris
> 
> Make this new 'gcompris' file contain the following:
> 
> --------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/gcompris.original -window $*
> --------------------------------------
>    $ chmod 755 /usr/bin/gcompris
> 
>    The system menus are configured to execute /usr/bin/gcompris, which
>    is now a wrapper script that executes "gcompris.original -window".
> 
> IIRC, gcompris needs "-window", but tuxtype and childsplay need
> "--window". You can easily try this on the command line before you put
> it in place, and of course you'll want to test it from the menu after
> you put a solution in place.
> 
> --matt
> 
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