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Re: Make Xwin.exe run something on start-up
- From: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:23:29 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: Make Xwin.exe run something on start-up
- References: <20050212122947.51360.qmail@web41306.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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.
xinit (and startx) already uses such an approach. It waits until the server
is acception connections and starts the clients. I think this method is
more suitable than adding another point of failure to the xserver sources.
bye
ago
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