Re: Make Xwin.exe run something on start-up

[Joseph Miller <joseph at tidetamerboatlifts dot com>]

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You may also want to take a look at XWinLogon which is basically the Cygwin X 
server packaged with a Windows frontend.  You can see a screenshot and 
download it at http://www.calcmaster.net/visual-c++/xwinlogon/

- -Joseph

On Saturday 12 February 2005 7:29 am, 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.
>
>
>
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