From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 24 22:23: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F63C37B416 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:23:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0252.cvx33-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.0.252] helo=enterprise) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 167sgu-0000Uy-00; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:23:01 -0800 From: "Eric Lam" To: "parv" Cc: Subject: RE: X Windows, Blackbox, and VNC Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:27:42 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20011125012047.B27951@moo.holy.cow> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, my problem is fixing up probalby 20 users and potential new users. It's not a big of a deal writing up a script, but it would be nice and a bonus if there was a central config file. thanks for your help though. eric -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of parv Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 10:21 PM To: Eric Lam Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Windows, Blackbox, and VNC in message , wrote Eric Lam thusly... > ... > You know how VNC creates a default ~/.vnc/xstartup? Is there a way to > automically specify xstartup to use blackbox, instead of the default windows > manager? Its rather annoying to configure ~/.vnc/xstartup so that it starts > up blackbox instead of that twm. > a really crude & quick way is to create symlink from twm to blackbox. twm is more or less guaranteed to be on a X Window System, afaik. so vnc does the safest thing. sure, it's not automagic, but why is it so hard to edit a line? ...unless, you are talking about changes to hundreds of users' files. but even in that case, a short perl program would take care of that too. - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message