I have a Redhat 5 OS, a dual monitor setup, and two workspace. When the machine reboots, I want to set the following:
On workspace 1,
* run the thunderbird-client on the left monitor.
* run 3 terminal clients on the right monitor.
On workspace 2,
* run firefox on the right monitor.
Can someone point me as to where I can set these settings? I am sure there is a way since when my machine boots up, couple of terminal clients pops up, my irc chat client pops up as well. I do not know how I did this before.
You could try Devil's Pie (yum install devilspie)
It's a tool for creating rules that will bind specific actions to applications as they are launched (i.e. setting workspace, position, transparency, etc...).
I found some doc here: http://www.foosel.org/linux/devilspie and here: http://live.gnome.org/DevilsPie
Of course, saving your workspace on logout can help too (System > Preferences > More Preferences > Sessions, then check "Automatically save changes to session").
Once you have setup your application rules, you could write a simple Bash script to start them all in sequence, and add that script to the Startup programs in the sessions preferences.
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Due to fact that my VM is opening in small resolution I've been facing lots of situations with flaky tests, mainly about "Element is not clickable" notification. The solution to my problem might be adding extensions and increase the resolution:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-autotest.screen-resolution-utility-task
The problem is I don't exactly know where it should be placed inside my pipeline which looks like this:
In order to run successfully this extensions there is a need to fulfill requirements:
Agent must be configured to run as an interactive process with autologin enabled (Where I should enable that?)
Shall I configure it directly by the "Demands" section on mine "Restart" agent options? I've tried putting the extensions inside the "Restart" section between "Stop" and "Start" agent tasks but it failed...
You can either reconfig your agent to interactive mode(check below detailed steps), or install a new agent and config it to interactive mode on your VM. Check here to install a new self hosted agent and check for more configuration.
1,
To reconfig your agent to interative mode, you need cd to the agent installation folder and run.\config remove to remove it first as shown in below pic.
2,
After agent is removed, Run .\config to reconfig your agent, and choose interactive during the configuration. Please refer to below screenshot and be careful to choose the right option (Y/N) at the highlighted steps
3,
To start the interactive agent by run .\run
Above steps should be ran as administrator. I followed above steps and successfully run set screen resolution task.
On my PC I use two operation systems Windows 8 and Ubuntu 14.04. I noticed that after booting Linux and then rebooting to Windows, Windows show the wrong time (Windows clock is 2 hours behind).
I checked in the Linux - time is correct.
I checked time settings - both OS have UTC+2 time zone and option to set time from the Internet.
If I correct time in Windows and do not boot Linux everything is O.K. But at list single loading Linux makes time shift.
I have tried to remove the option for setting time from the Internet.
But manual time setting option changed nothing. What should be done to see the same time in the both operating systems?
That's very popular problem.
All you need to do (and that's really the rightest way) is to say Windows that you hardware time is UTC.
To do it just add the following DWORD key to the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\RealTimeIsUniversal
and set its value to 1.
Also you can youse QWORD key instead of DWORD if you have 64bit Windows. But, as far as I know, it's not necessary.
The simplest solution is to set time zone UTC (London) in Linux.
I faced a similar problem, and my solution is quite simple without changing any configs of your operating system.
Requirements: Need to have a internet connection for time sync. Have admin privileges.
You need to enable windows time service
Go to services by typing in the search bar.
Open services
Search for windows time service (W32Time)
W32Time Service
Change the Startup Type to Automatic
Change Startup type
Creating a small bat script file
Open Notepad and create a file with the following command.
w32tm /resync
Save it anywhere with .bat extension. (Remember its location)
Schedule a task
Go to Task Scheduler by typing it in the search bar
Open Task Scheduler
Right click on the empty space > create new task
Create New Task
Give your task a name and description
Change "When running the task, use the following user account" to any admin user or admin group account.
Select "Run whether user is logged on or not"
Check the box for "Run with highest privileges"
Check the box for "Hidden" and "Configure for" = Windows 10
Go to Triggers tab, add the following triggers by clicking on "New..."
First Trigger
"Begin the task:" Select "At startup"
In Advanced settings, check the box for Enabled
Second Trigger
"Begin the task:" Select "At log on"
"Settings" Select "Any user"
In Advanced settings, check the box for Enabled
Go to Actions tab, create a new action by clicking on New...
"Action:" Select "Start a program"
In "Program/script" browse and select the file you created earlier.
And then click OK
Go to Conditions tab
Check the box "Start only if the following network connection is available"
Select your internet network or you can select "any connection" as wild card.
Go to Settings tab.
Check "Allow task to be run on demand"
Check "Run task as soon as possible ..."
Check "If the task fails, restart every" select "1 minute", "Attempts to restart up to:" 3 times
Check "Stop the task if runs longer than:" 3 Days
Check "If the running task does not end when requested, force it to stop"
"If the task is already running, then the following rule applies:"
Select "Do not start a new instance"
I had the same problem recently. My solution is:
First make sure you have the correct time zone
Set BIOS time to local time.
In Linux, edit /etc/default/rcS by replacing UTC=yes with UTC=no.
Reboot.
I'm looking for a tiling window manager that support notification of activity.
What I mean for it?
Let's say that I have a terminal command running on workspace 1, because it is a very slow command I would like to be notify when the prompt appears again. When it is running I'm working on workspace 2.
Another example, I usually keep the thunderbird on a workspace. Let's say that it is workspace 4. When I receive a new email, the workspace 4 notifies me. Why not use the thunderbird notification? It is huge and usually take all the space of my terminal when I'm working with 2 or 3 opened.
Someone knows a tile WM that supports this type of notification?
Another good example is the screen command. I can configure it to monitor the terminal and it notifies me when I'm in other terminal.
Thanks.
So I've backed myself into a corner - I wanted an application or command to run when a user logged in over RDP to a server. As per a best-practice suggestion on a Microsoft site, I set up this program to run under group policy rules and now I have a dilemma:
I log into my server via RDP, the default program launches and then immediately logs me out without a chance for me to do anything.
How can I get into the box again to change this setting? Server is Windows 2008 r2 with terminal services installed on a remote IP.
Could you just remove\edit the GPO, wait a bit, and then reboot the server? You could still send it the "shutdown /m \computername". You could also use psexec to remotely run "gpupdate /force" before rebooting.
If you set that up as local group policy, then you can try opening mmc, choosing the Group Policy editor, and pointing it to that machine to edit the policies. In more detail:
Start --> Run --> mmc
File --> Add/Remove Snap-in
Under the Standalone tab, click Add...
Choose Group Policy Object Editor
In the following wizard, click the Browse button
Click the "Computers" tab, select the Another computer radial button, and type the name or Browse to the remote computer
Click OK, then Finish, then Close, and finally OK
Also you could maybe edit/add a logon script that runs "shutdown -a" to abort logoff/shutdowns, but that may not work due to timing.
You didn't mention if this was Domain, or local, but those options should take care of either.
Our lead programmer likes to install tools on a shared network drive to minimize effort when updating. He recently installed Eclipse to the network drive, but when I run it, I get a window that says Workspace in use or cannot be created, choose a different one. After clicking OK, I get a window that gives me a drop down menu with only one item, the workspace on his machine. I can then browse to the workspace on my machine, click OK, and Eclipse continues to start up and run just fine. There's a check box in that second window that says Use this workspace as the default that I've checked after browsing and selecting my workspace, but the next time I start up Eclipse, it reverts back to the lead's workspace.
Are we violating some assumption that Eclipse makes about the install? We're on a Linux network, if it makes a difference.
Setup the shared eclipse such that it can not be modified by the users accessing it. This should (if I recall correctly) force eclipse into a "Shared User, Hands Off" mode and default to storing settings per user account.
Do not share Workspaces (or Projects) -- this will only break things horribly -- use a different strategy such as a proper revision control system.
Perhaps this documentation will be helpful.
"""The set up for this [shared] scenario requires making the install area read-only for regular users. When users start Eclipse, this causes the configuration area to automatically default to a directory under the user home dir. If this measure is not taken, all users will end up using the same location for their configuration area, which is not supported."""
I would try to run Eclipse locally as well as over the network. Using a shared network drive may make Eclipse more painful than it sometimes is. A development environment should work for the developer, even at the expense of a slightly more complicated setup.
Eclipse stores a lot of settings, including the workspace list, in it's installation directory (especially the "configuration" directory). It's hard to say how well sharing the installation will work, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were a number of issues caused by "fighting" between Eclipse instances running on different developer's workstations.
To fix the particular issue you're having, you could set up a separate startup script that passes your workspace as a command-line argument to Eclipse, bypassing the workspace selection dialog you're seeing.