wood@acf4.NYU.EDU (David Wood) (02/13/90)
Last friday wrote a somewhat incoherent (it was late friday night) message concerning the use of X-terminals. Let me restate the problem. We would like to be able to place X-terminals at various locations around the campus. We have many different unix machines and many users (lots of students). Not everyone has an account on every machine; so this is the way I visualized these public X-terminals (Visual and NCD) being used. 1) User telnets to the machine they have an account on. 2) User logs in. 3) Optionally (?) starts up an X session. Many people originally suggested using xdm, but unless I mis- understand the operation of xdm, I would have to put an xdm greeting from each available machine on the display (not everyone has an account on all machines). So what I thought I wanted was something like xinit that would allow them to start up X after logging into "their" machine. Xinit always wants a server though. A simple solution is to sources the .xsession or .xinitrc file, but there is no way of being sure that the resulting processes get terminated when the user is done. An xinit type tool could kill off all X processes in the resulting process group when finished/killed. It seems like what I really want here is an xinit that doesn't necessarily start up a server. Does anyone else have any suggestions? Thank you to the three/four people who responded with e-mail concerning xdm. Also thanks to Janet Carson of Baylor who understood the problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wood wood@acf2.nyu.edu New York University ...!uunet!cmcl2!wood 212-998-3029 "Brain. Brain. What is brain?" Kara the Eymorg, "Spock's Brain", Stardate 5432.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------