RH & X Question

[Brian Medley]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 12:46:15PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote:

> But I also want to have the original login to go away.  I want
> something like:
> 
>   startx & ; logout
> 
> But that didn't work when I tried it.  Maybe I did something wrong.
> 
> This is a naive user thing: Login.  Do stuff.  Tell X to logout.  Be
> back where s/he started.  If I just do a startx as part of the login,
> then the user needs to quit X and remember to logout.  I want to get
> rid of that step.

have you tried:

startx && logout
or
startx ; logout
or
startx
logout

I wonder if you could make the user's shell /usr/X11R6/bin/startx or
similar?  Have never tried that, though...

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