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- From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Login box for openwin
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.194318.13016@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- References: <1992Aug11.013417.15041@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Aug12.140542.28436@eua.ericsson.se>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:43:18 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In <1992Aug12.140542.28436@eua.ericsson.se> per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug11.013417.15041@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
- >|> > There should still be a way to get to the
- >|> >console vt100 emulator in case the user wanted to run something else,
- >|> >like sunview. A button or a magic login name might do it.
-
- >Well, not impossible - at least we're doing it, but it's perhaps a bit
- >awkward...
-
- >But there are other ways - xdm has the abort-display() action, which can
- >be bound to a e.g. a function key and will cause it to just kill the X
- >server and stop managing the display in question.
-
- >Finally, getting xdm to fire up the X server again is done by logging in
- >as a dummy user, which may or may not have a password and has the
- >program below as "login shell"
-
- Thanks, this is getting near to perfection. It would be really nice if
- the getty login could time out after a minute or so, and the X server
- start up in its place. Then, you could hit the magic function key to
- kill the X server and login on the console terminal emulator, and after
- you logged out, and after a minute's pause, the X server would pop up
- its login box again. I haven't thought through how to do this yet.
- --
- -Gary Mills- -Networking Group- -U of M Computer Services-
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