Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zazen!dogie!anderson From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How to launch Console at login? Keywords: ummm Message-ID: <1991Apr7.233713.19661@macc.wisc.edu> Date: 7 Apr 91 23:37:13 GMT References: <1991Apr7.134517.17380@macc.wisc.edu> <472@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison Lines: 68 In article <472@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: >Jess Anderson writes >> In article <91095.190050IO92395@MAINE.BITNET> >> IO92395@MAINE.BITNET (T.C.A.Venkatesan) writes: >> >How do I set my Cube to launch a Console window every time >> >I login? >> Oh goody, one I can answer, and it's a gorgeous Sunday >> morning too. Must be my lucky day! Wrong-o!! >> In the Workspace, open Tools and click Console. Miniaturize >> the console and drag its icon into the dock. >There's only one problem with this. It doesn't work. At least >as far as I know (and have tested) you can't drag window icons or >documents into the dock. They have to be applications. How did >you get this to work, Jess? See what I get for thinking I knew something? What was *for sure* was that I had done it, but I misremembered how I did it. This is a good reason to be a packrat, for I bethought myself, "damn, where *did* I get that from?" "Aha, I bet I got it from this very newsgroup," and sure enough, I found it. With apologies to all for the previous nonsense, here's the right stuff, with thanks to Dave Norton at PSU. >Article 7238 of comp.sys.next: >Path: zazen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!psuvax1!psuvm!dwn2 >>From: DWN2@psuvm.psu.edu >Newsgroups: comp.sys.next >Subject: Re: Console Window in NeXTStep 2.0 >Message-ID: <91073.034931DWN2@psuvm.psu.edu> >Date: 14 Mar 91 08:49:31 GMT >References: >Distribution: comp >Organization: Penn State University >Lines: 16 > >> Is there a way to automatically bring up the console window.... > >In the browser move to /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app >Select File->Open as Folder in Workspace menu >In the new browser move to /Workspace.Tools/console ^ No period here -----------------------: >Drag the console icon to the dock >Enter Preferences and select console to have console > automagically come up at log in. > >Dave Norton dwn2@psuvm.psu.edu + <> The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' <> moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that if we <> are not careful, we forget to be insulted by it. <> -- "The Times" (London) -- Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888