On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Thomas Dodd wrote: >>Again, you're desiging a generic solution for a problem that doesn't >>exist, at least in my world. The computer in question is not a >>multi-user server, there is only one (and ever one) X process. The pidof >>command will work perfectly every time. > >Why is there only ever one X process? You can run multiple X servers simultaneously depending on your hardware. There's only one X process per display however. >There are at least 2. One for GDM where you login >(at runlevel 5) , it dies, and the one for your Xsession >where you do some work starts. When you logout that >process dies and a new X is started for GDM again Those wouldn't be simultaneous though. >GDM can be replaced by XDM or KDM too. > >Create a suid script top renice the current X process. >The run it in your login scripts. >pidof should be fine for this. SUID scripts are not possible in Linux. The SUID bit is ignored on all scripts. -- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
