On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 16:14, Erik Myllymaki wrote:
> continueing on the road to the *perfect web kiosk setup*, I find that GDM
> can run a program prior to getting to the greeter.
> 
> by putting something like /usr/bin/opera7 in the Xsetup-workstations file
> and commenting out the rest, I can invoke this program without needing to
> login. trouble is, it is run as root(well, the opera7 process is running as
> root, but it is NOT using the .opera directory and root's opera config
> files, it creates on in the root directory(/) not the /root directory ...?).

It's generally considered bad to run anything that responds to the
user's clicks prior to login.  In other words, it's intended to let you
do things like setting the background.

Look for notes on autologin.
-- 
David Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Little Bald Consulting, LLC


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