On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:01:03PM -0400, Stephen Dennison wrote:
> Out of curiosity has anyone ever thought about using fvwm in place of
> a display manager? Have any developers thought about creating an fvwm
> config that would act as a display manager, or implementing a display
> manager that is fvwm driven?
>
> Basically I just want a display manager that will allow either user
> selection from a menu or a user name and password entry, but I dont'
> want to have to rely on gnome or kde under-pinings. I was thinking
> that I could probably just start up a stripped down window session
> with fvwm and remove all of the default key-bindings. (Or maybe start
> up a non-privelaged user account that doesn't have a shell entry and
> have it present the menu...) I could then decorate it with all the
> eye candy and functionality that gdm provides, but I'm not sure how to
> go about replacing the currently running fvwm session with an fvwm
> session running as a different user.
> So I guess in all of my rambling my question isn't really fvwm
> specific, but it does relate to fvwm. How do I create a new fvwm
> session from a currently running fvwm session with different user
> privelages?
Run fvwm with the --replace option (-replace for older versions).
However, this does not change ownership of the X server, so you
have to open the display to the world with
$ xhost +<machine name>
To make it work. This is a huge security risk, so I don't
recommend doing that. For example, a local user can forcefully
replace the running fvwm session with her own and do all sorts of
bad things.
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Tue Jul 27 2004 - 04:59:55 BST