[2767] in Athena Bugs
xlogin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (djf@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Aug 10 15:31:36 1989
From: <djf@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 15:31:15 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Several bugs with xlogin (on a uVaxII, freshly updated to 6.3B):
The SYSTEM button causes my .environment and .cshrc.mine files to be
sourced. It is not supposed to.
In error messages boxes (the ones with the exclaimation mark in the
triangle), the mouse cursor is a wristwatch over the text of the
message, and the default X over the rest of the window. When the window
first pops up, I see the wristwatch and think I should wait for a while.
Neither cursor is right. It should be an arrow of some sort.
The custom login prompt asks for the name of a shell script, but allows
any program to be specified. Perhaps this is correct behaivor -- it
hints to users how not to screw themselves up, but allows sophisticated
user to do what they want. Probably though, either xlogin should check
for a magic number, or the prompt should be changed.
-- djf
