On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 13:27, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > Is there a way, with xdm (or gdm or some other login display manager) to > display the output of a program running in the background, say gkrellm or > top? Similar to how the console is displayed? > > I have a system that froze on the login screen and the clients looked at > it and saw the login screen and assumed the machine was running (none of > them have logins on the debian box) . . . they asked for an easy way to determine > > if it was running, as if it's going to hang every day or so . . . > > So, if I could give them the pretty gkrellm monitors on the xdm login screen, > they'd think that was really kewl . . . > > madmac > > > -- > Doug MacFarlane > madmac@covad.net Seems to me that at least one of them has a setting that runs xconsole on a window beside the login window, and ISTR seeing a fishtank dynamic wallpaper running underneath the login window. If those work, you likely could get away with specifying a V4L feed on the desktop - see what reaction you would get with a webcam displaying on the desktop the images of the person at the keyboard as they are logging in... -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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