[21029] in Athena Bugs
Re: possible problem with certain xss modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Nov 6 16:13:40 2002
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU,
peeto de la noche <gamache@MIT.EDU>
From: amu@alum.mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 06 Nov 2002 16:13:38 -0500
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<ghudson@MIT.EDU> (Greg Hudson) writes:
> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 17:21, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be simpler to have one simple xss module that does
> > something easy (and non-offensive to the X server) like bounce the
> > Athena owl around the screen or something (similar to the way an
> > empty Athena machine looks)? xss could be configured to run that
> > module and only that module by default.
>
> We don't have time to write a module ourselves, but I did get the
> go-ahead at release team to narrow down the default list of screen hacks
> to one existing module. If you have a preference for which one it
> should be (it should be reasonably pretty and shouldn't consume godawful
> amounts of CPU), speak up; otherwise I'll pick one.
How about using the "flag" module, configured via X resources to have
a default bitmap of /etc/athena/login/bitmaps/owl?
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