-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You may also want to take a look at XWinLogon which is basically the Cygwin X server packaged with a Windows frontend. You can see a screenshot and download it at http://www.calcmaster.net/visual-c++/xwinlogon/
- -Joseph On Saturday 12 February 2005 7:29 am, Alex Dubov wrote: > Hello everybody. > Currently, I'm using Xwin.exe+Openssh+winssh_askpass > to allow users access to Linux servers. It works ok in > a more or less graphical way expected by the silly > user (he clicks icon, password dialog appears and then > session is started through ssh). The problem is window > timing. When X is in windowed mode, it starts in > background, but window is opened slightly later. > Password dialog, on the other hand, already appears > and gets obscured by the opened Xwin rootwindow, > baffling the user and causing inconvenience. > I believe that to solve this problem correctly, an > option can be added to Xwin, making it run some > program after all window initialization is completed. > This program can then be implemented to provide nice > authentication dialogs in whatever environment user > wants - thus resembling commercial X server products > such as starnet or wrq, but with improved flexibility. > I think it is not difficult to do for somebody already > working on Xwin configuration options, so I'm humbly > asking to implement this feature. > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEKnfmXZROF+EADURAuIEAJ9ENOFM7uk/aFWoK/XhbXm0z78YpACfcYgE LMlAaPAZUX9H4Agc489cZQI= =TcDH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----