Hi Kevin,

Well, at least this *looks* a bit reassuring. And we always grabbed the
first one in the past, so this will probably be fine in practice. Thanks
for all of the extra info!

Cheers,
Bart

Kevin Mitchell wrote:
> It looks like openbox (or whatever is logging the terminals) knows not
> to cause this sort of trouble. I added a sudo aterm shortcut and when
> I fire it up, I get
> 
> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
> kevmitch tty7     :0               09:03    0.00s 13.38s  0.04s
> /bin/bash /home/kevmitch/.xsession
> kevmitch pts/1    :0               09:03    5:55m  0.02s  0.02s mutt
> kevmitch pts/0    :0               09:03    5:55m  0.13s  0.13s bash
> kevmitch pts/2    :0               09:03    3:47m  0.41s  0.04s
> /usr/bin/aterm -geometry 106x32-640-412 -
> kevmitch pts/3    :0               09:05    1:32m  0.22s  0.22s bash
> root     pts/5    :0.0             09:07    1:33m  0.20s  0.20s bash
> root     pts/6    :0.0             09:09    0.00s  0.18s  0.00s w
> 
> So it appends the extra ".0" when it might cause confusion. In any
> case, it might have been all right even if this wasn't the case, since
> the real login TTY seems to always be the first in the list. Thus,
> truncating to just the first result would have prevented any root ":0"
> from spoiling the pudding. That probably wouldn't be very reassuring
> though, because who knows if that ordering is set in stone.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Bart Samwel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> Kevin Mitchell wrote:
>>> $ w
>>>  01:00:47 up 1 day, 23:51,  9 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.07
>>> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
>>> kevmitch tty7     :0               Sun03    0.00s  8:36m  0.04s
>>> /bin/bash /home/kevmitch/.xsession
>>> kevmitch pts/1    :0               00:57    2.00s  0.22s  0.02s aterm
>>> kevmitch pts/2    :0               00:55    5:01m  0.17s  0.17s bash
>>> kevmitch pts/4    :0               13:27    3:07   0.77s  0.77s bash
>>> kevmitch pts/5    :0               23:49   14:05m  3.51s  0.00s
>>> /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/matlab -nosplash -
>>> kevmitch pts/6    :0               18:48    6:12   0.26s  0.26s bash
>>> kevmitch pts/7    :0               18:49    3:08   2.09s  0.00s
>>> /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/matlab -nosplash -
>>> kevmitch pts/8    :0               00:56    3:48m  0.19s  0.19s bash
>>> kevmitch pts/9    :0.0             01:00    0.00s  0.19s  0.00s w
>>>
>>>
>>> All the pts's are the xterminals I have open. The ones without ".0"
>>> are aterm's started via key bindings in Openbox. The lone :0.0 is one
>>> that I started by typing "aterm" on the command line of an already
>>> open xterminal. Don't ask me why that makes a difference :)
>> Thanks for the info. I hadn't seen this type before -- all cases I've seen
>> up till now showed one entry for :0 and all terminal entries for :0.0. What
>> I'm wondering is if you can get it to show a different user name while still
>> showing :0, for instance
>>
>> root    pts/4    :0               13:27    3:07   0.77s  0.77s bash
>>
>> if you edit the Openbox config and edit the hotkey to start something like
>> "sudo <aterm command line>" or something similar. Because then I'm getting
>> *really* unhappy about how this looks...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bart
>>
> 
> 
> 




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