On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:13:58PM -0600, Joel Schneider wrote: >> desktop when my kids login. I'm wondering what I could use to do this. >> I have no clues on where to start with this idea. Any suggestions? >You could set up swatch to monitor one of the log files in /var/log that >gets updated when people log in (auth.log ...) You're working too hard there, why not just put a command or two into thier $HOME/.xsession or the system xsession (/etc/X11/xdm/Sessions) > >As for pop-up windows, maybe use Tcl/Tk to write a simple script - see >http://tcl.activestate.com/ for more info. Again, you're working too hard. Why reinvent the wheel, just use xmessage. It's ugly as hell but it gets the job done. >Joel >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Ben Lutgens http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ Sistina Software Inc. (mail -s "get -info" blutgens-info at sistina.com) for my gpg key, IM info etc. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020320/e2f60ed8/attachment.pgp