Re: Python app as a Display Manager

2007-07-01 Thread hg
"Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> I feel at this stage that what I miss is: assuming I manage to get a >> python-based dialog box started automatically from init.rc (instead of >> xdm, gdm, ...): how do I start an X11 session with the user/pw >> information retrieved ... + set the correct *nix environme

Re: Python app as a Display Manager

2007-07-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I feel at this stage that what I miss is: assuming I manage to get a > python-based dialog box started automatically from init.rc (instead of xdm, > gdm, ...): how do I start an X11 session with the user/pw information > retrieved ... + set the correct *nix environment variables. First, the user

Python app as a Display Manager

2007-06-30 Thread hg
Hi, I asked that question a while back ... and then gave up: I want to write a simple display manager (*nix / X11) in Python. I'm going through lots of documentation as well as the code of XDM. 1) I currently understand that the "X11 Intrinsics" are what I need to master in order to get there.