Re: SEUL: SEUL duplicating efforts?

[Donovan Rebbechi <elflord@pegasus.rutgers.edu>]

> The right thing to do is allowing the user to start X from the command
> line but making it easy to switch to XDM once he knows X works.  

yep.

> We
> must insure he knows how to set up XDM and how to return to command
> line.  

yep

> That means than we must not expect the user goinh to RTFM.  The
> info must come to him.

good point. Again, menu shells are great info providers, since you can
walk them through some pre-amble before they fire up anything. I hope you
guys aren't sick of hearing about my menu-shell idea already ... (-:

> Also have a couple of gettys started even in XDM mode.  In that mode
> XDM will restart another server if you use CTRL-ALT-Backspace so you
> can't use it for going out of X.  In contrast you can use CTRL-ALT-F1
> to go char mode and kill xdm from it if you a getty started.

now this sounds like a smart thing to do ... 

-- Donovan