On Sat,09.Aug.08, 17:04:47, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/09/08 08:57, Damon L. Chesser wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] >>> I put this at the bottom of my family members' .bashrc files. Works like >>> a charm. >>> >>> if [ "$TERM" == "linux" ]; then >>> startx >>> exit >>> fi >>> >>> -- >>> Ron Johnson, Jr. >>> Jefferson LA USA >> >> Ron, >> >> I like that. Alleviates the need for a login manager at all and if all >> win users snooping around would not even know what to type at the login: >> prompt. But does this not kill any vt's for that user? ie, >> cntrl-alt-F2, login, wham, GUI and not a term. > > Possibly. But they never do that, so it hasn't come up yet. Neither have I > found a need to, yet, for that matter.
If I try to run startx with X already active I get:
Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and try again
And eventually it will return the prompt. I think most cases will be
covered by something like:
,----
| if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
| if [ ! -f /tmp/X0-lock ]; then
| startx
| exit
| fi
| fi
`----
Regards,
Andrei
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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