On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/07/08 23:42, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:56:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 08/07/08 20:20, s. keeling wrote: > >>> Damon L. Chesser <damon@damtek.com>: > >>>> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>>>> On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >>>>>> Displeasure? Synaptic is brain dead simple, what's not to like? > >>>>> It's a GUI app? > >>>> Very funny Ron. Really. > >>> No, I think he was serious, and I agree with him. Do you want > >>> your access to the pkging system to be borked when X is borked? > >>> Especially in this nvidia crazed age? > >> I agree with the point you are trying to make, but best to: > >> s/nvidia/ati > >> > >> More especially: > >> s/nvidia/display manager/ > >> > > > > > > no kidding... have to debug why gdm (work machine, for the general > > user...) locks the machine hard when a user logs out... sheesh. I may > > have to teach people how to login properly. ;-O > > I put this at the bottom of my family members' .bashrc files. Works > like a charm. > > if [ "$TERM" == "linux" ]; then > startx > exit > fi > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA Ron, I like that. Alleviates the need for a login manager at all and if all win users snooping around would not even know what to type at the login: prompt. But does this not kill any vt's for that user? ie, cntrl-alt-F2, login, wham, GUI and not a term. I am sitting here turning over diff. scenarios in my head, how to accomplish them using this login script. That is one of them. I need more time! I don't have enough to play with. -- Damon L. Chesser damon@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
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