[wplug] x-windows for multi users

[jsbillings at mac.com]

On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 12:54, Henry Umansky wrote: 

> Is there anyway to have xwindows(gnome or kde) to start for some users 
> logging into the workstation and have other users use the console if they 
> wanted too?  Is there a script out there?

I have a .[,z]login that checks what kind of tty you logged in under
(since the tty you get as a login is usually tty[0-9]*) and starts X if
you are logging in at the console.  It does some other things, like
start up ssh-agent and makes sure X isn't already started.  I use zsh,
here's a snippet from my .zlogin to show what I do. 

if [[ `tty` == /dev/tty<0-9>* ]] { 
        echo "Running a console term" 
        if [[ -z `ps auxwww|grep xinit|grep -v grep` ]] { 
                echo "Starting X" 
                exec xinit 
                } 
        } 

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