[BLU] Re: RH & X Question

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Sat Sep 29 20:13:00 EDT 2001


On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Brian Medley wrote:

> 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...

That's what I was jsut about to suggest.  Good thing I read your post
first.

Just remember to add it to /etc/shells.


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