Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!att!pacbell.com!pacbell!sactoh0!unify!openlook!openlook-request From: fernwood!uunet.UU.NET!island!bermuda!daniel@fernwood.mpk.ca.us (Daniel Smith - "get off your duff and vote") Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: Login support from within openlook Message-ID: Date: 7 Nov 90 18:04:49 GMT Lines: 25 > > > Karin Meyer wrote about "Login support from within openlook": > > a) login and automatically enter the application. Exiting > the application would exit windows. Ideally they could not > invoke any other programs from the window manager menu. Hmmm, have /etc/passwd call their .xinitrc, which sets up their environment. Change their openwindows menu file as well? > b) Have windows up and running on a workstation, log in to a > window, which then automatically brings up the application. > Exiting the application would place the user back at the > login state. Sounds like xdm, except that comes with the MIT (and many other) distributions. Might be worth it to try it with OpenWindows, it does let you specify which X server you're using. Daniel -- .......Daniel Smith, Island Graphics, daniel@island.com dansmith@well.sf.ca.us ..(415)491 0765 x 250 (W) 4000 CivicCenterDrive SanRafael MarinCounty CA 94903 .disclaimer: If I don't write these things, Island will take away my coffee. Time ain't on your side/don't sit idly by/You've got to just try -Living Color