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Re: possible problem with certain xss modules

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Nov 11 10:33:48 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: 11 Nov 2002 10:33:45 -0500
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 16:13, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> > How about using the "flag" module, configured via X resources to have
> > a default bitmap of /etc/athena/login/bitmaps/owl?
> 
> Sorry to solicit advice and then ignore it, but that doesn't qualify as
> "reasonably pretty" in my book.  We will be narrowing down the enabled
> list of modules to three (coral, cynosure, hyperball), which I think
> will resolve the problem.

Fair enough, modulo Ike's comment about hyperball; having just tried
this myself, I must admit that flag doesn't handle that bitmap as well
as I'd hoped. :-/

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