On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:39:58PM -0700, John Stevens wrote: ... > I'm asking 'cause my boys are the ones who want to be able to play this > game (Quake II), and while a seven year old can do GUI, as it is the > simplest way to get this stuff done, command line activities may be a > bit much, especially as they are familiar with XDM and etc, but not the > command line stuff.
I've a similar problem at home, my kids sometimes creep on my machine when I'm away but still have things running in X. What I did was added this to their ~/.bash_profile: if [ `tty` = /dev/tty6 ]; then exec startx -- :1 fi Now they have to remember the secret keystrokes that get them to the 6th virtual console and simply login. X is started and you're automatically switch to the proper console. You could even add "-c /path/to/quake" to the startx invocation, and they would be trown into their favorite game. -- groetjes, carel
