Wife friendly startup-sequence

[nbache]

Grab an old app from aminet called mousewarn

Also a good solution, but keep Startup-Sequence free of changes if at all possible.

User-Startup is executed synchronously before LoadWB, so the prefs file copying can all safely happen in User-Startup and be done in time for LoadWB.

BTW, if I were to make such a feature, I'd make two different WBStartup setups and save them under different prefs file names, then copy one or the other to ENVARC:Sys/wbstartup.prefs as needed.

Best regards,

Niels

[Severin]

Yes it could easily be moved to user-startup, I also thought of the dual wbstartup.prefs files but if the system is just to run owb then it's simpler just to turn off wbstartup.prefs.

I suppose a dual wbstartup.prefs in user-startup would look something like this:

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delete envarc:sys/wbstartup.prefs force quiet
set answer `requestchoice "User Selection" "Who is booting the system?" "Him|Her"`
if $answer EQ 1
  copy envarc:sys:wbstartup.prefs.hers envarc:sys/wbstartup.prefs
else
  copy envarc:sys:wbstartup.prefs.his envarc:sys/wbstartup.prefs
endif
unset answer ;not needed but neater ;)

Put OWBLauncher is her wbstartup and everything should be fine.