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Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up


On 2007-10-28, at 15:16, Mark J. Reed wrote:

On 10/28/07, Bob Greschke <email@hidden> wrote:
We have secretaries (that are not going to be entering command line
anythings any time soon) that just start X11, pull down the
Applications menu and select an item that ssh'es them into, let's say,
our inventory system. How will that work now? 

Why does it have to be an xterm?  There are much better terminal
applications for the Mac.  With the new automatic X start, you can use
any of them, ssh -X somewhere, and still have the ability to fire up
remote X apps.

Heck, instead of using the Applications menu, you could have them
double-click an icon that is a shell script that just does "ssh -Y
hostname".  Mac OS will fire up Terminal and execute the ssh command,
and whatever it is they've been doing in xterm will continue to work.

--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>


No no. They don't use an xterm. They don't even see an xterm. They don't know what an xterm is. All they do is click on the X11 icon in the dock to either start X11 or just get the menu to show up, select a pull-down menu item from the X11 Applications menu (just like in every other program on the planet these days) and get to work.

Now they have to have icons laying all over the place for the inventory system, the accounting system, etc.? That's not an improvement.

Bob
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References: 
 >X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up (From: Robert Tillyard <email@hidden>)
 >Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up (From: "Chris Linstid" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up (From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>)
 >Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up (From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>)
 >Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up (From: "B. Ludvigsen" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up (From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>)
 >Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up (From: Bob Greschke <email@hidden>)
 >Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up (From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>)



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