RH & X Question

[Brian Medley]

> 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.

I was browsing around and (looking for somthing completely different) I found
this: 

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/kodis.html

Since I normally use X whenever I'm logged in at the console, I've added the
following few lines of code to my .zlogin and .bash_profile scripts. This code
queries "Start X [Yn]? " when initially logged in from the first virtual
console, and waits 10 seconds for a response. Entering Y or allowing the
timeout to occur results in X being started. On exiting X, a similar timed
query asking "Log out [Yn]? " is issued, giving the option of logging out or
being dropped into a text console. 

case `tty` in 
    /dev/tty[1])
        echo -n "Start X [Yn]? "
        expect \
            -c 'stty raw' \
            -c 'set timeout 10' \
            -c 'expect -nocase n {exit 1} -re . {exit 0}'
        if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
            startx
            echo -n "Log out [Yn]? "
            expect \
                -c 'stty raw' \
                -c 'set timeout 10' \
                -c 'expect -nocase n {exit 1} -re . {exit 0}'
            if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
                logout
            fi
        fi
        echo
    ;;
esac

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