Re: autorun.unx

[Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel <mhk caldera de>]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Patrick Spingys wrote:

> Hi GNOME-Team!
> 
> For M$-Windows, there exists on CDROMs a file called
> 'autorun.inf' which looks like
> 
> > [autorun]
> > OPEN=CommandToStart.exe
> > ICON=FileWithIcon.ico
> 
> or if you want to call a html-page:
> 
> > [autorun]
> > OPEN=Start htms\index.html
> > ICON=StartIcon.ico
> 
> Is it possible, that there exists any file for Linux, too?
> With KDE it is so, that - if you insert a CDROM - it
> automatical mounted. I think GNOME do in the future the same.
> So can you integrate a option, where you decide, if a file
> - called autorun.unx or anything else - are loaded.

Hi,

KDE-2.0 will have a autorun tool that looks for an executable
named autorun.sh on the CD and executes it if found (and if it
has been configured to run it :)


Bye,
Matthias.


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