[BLU] Re: RH & X Question

[Kent Borg]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Brian Medley wrote:
> I wonder if you could make the user's shell /usr/X11R6/bin/startx or
> similar?  Have never tried that, though...

I liked it, but it won't work.  The user still might need a shell.
Both in X sessions and for remote access.  (Not a completely naive
user.)  

As for the "exec startx", thanks, that is getting close.  The downside
is that the virtual console login doesn't go away until after the X
session does.  So the X session offers things like reboot and
shutdown, simple logout would be nice.

And this is not a completely naive user thing.  When I am logged in on
either my notebook or my work machine I am usually in an X session.
But I don't want the original virtual terminal session sitting there
open with no password.  As it is I have to start up X, then remember
to go back to the login terminal and log out before I go back to X.  A
single command that both started X and killed the original login right
away would be nice for me too.


Thanks for the help so far,

-kb, the Kent who has to go to a meeting now.
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