[21030] in Athena Bugs
Re: possible problem with certain xss modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Nov 6 19:57:28 2002
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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:56:38 -0500
To: amu@alum.mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko), Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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"What amu said"
This was pretty much what I had in mind. However, I just wasn't sure
which module was the best for this. Aaron's suggestion sounds like a
good idea.
$0.02
-Jon
At 4:13 PM -0500 on 11/6/02, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
><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?
>
>--
>Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
>Finger amu@monk.mit.edu (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.
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