today's really stupid question

[Aaron Grewell]

>From the instructions on their site, you should be able to edit /etc/passwd 
and replace /bin/bash with /bin/pdmenu (or whatever the right path is to 
pdmenu).

On Tuesday 29 April 2003 11:20, dep wrote:
> okay.
>
> as part of my renewed campaign to revive the console as a place where
> even newbies can do useful business -- and as a place with which
> *everyone* ought to be able to do useful business, in that xfree is
> just to fragile, especially with distributors dicking around with it
> -- my attention had been drawn to a nifty little app called pdmenu.
> (http://www.kitenet.net/programs/pdmenu/)
>
> it's wonderfully dos-looking<g>. editing the menus is a little
> obscure, but no worse, say, than adding applications in gnustep used
> to be.
>
> anyway, supposedly there's a way to configure it to act as a nice,
> console-based login manager, ala xdm/kdm/gdm without x. the
> documentation in this regard is limited to: "As a login shell. (Just
> change their shell, it works fine.)" which is dandy, except a.) i
> have no idea where their shell is called and b.) in that i'm already
> booting to a console login prompt, i have no reason to think that
> this would be called from there anyway. my *guess* is that calling it
> from rc.local would do the trick, but kurt remembers (or should) the
> *last* time i threw something into rc.local without *knowing* what i
> was doing.
>
> consider all of the above to be a question.<g>
>
> also, while i'm here -- does anyone know of anyone who still sells (it
> would have to be old stock) the corel suite, and if so, whether it
> includes sufficient wrappers to allow it to run on a modern linux?