Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
- Subject: Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
- From: Patrick Coskren <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:38:06 -0400
On Oct 28, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Bob Greschke wrote:
??? How will they select which program/server they want to connect
to? They don't run anything on their Mac except start X11 and
select a menu item which ssh'es them into another machine/account
where the 'inventory system', or whatever, resides. Are we all
talking about the same thing?
Just clicking on the X11 icon doesn't get them anywhere. It just
starts X11 and now brings up an xterm which they have no use for,
and in whose Applications menu I can no longer put commands like
ssh -X -Y email@hidden -OR- xterm -geometry 80x50+100
+100 -rightbar -sb -bg "black" -fg "yellow" -cr "orange" -rv -fa
Monaco -fs 13 -e ssh -Y email@hidden? How do I replace
that functionality? It's gone or hiding somewhere. I'm not going
to type all of that stuff every time I want to do something, and
having a bunch of scripts/icons laying around to run each variation
of the ssh command to get into different machines is pretty silly.
Why not put a bunch of these one-line scripts in a folder, give them
all the same names as the menus you used to have, and stick that
folder in the Dock? Now they can just select if from a stack, and
X11 will launch automatically. Okay, now you have a bunch of files
instead of a bunch of menu items, but the complexity is of the same
order, and they can still just click something (now the folder in the
Dock), select something (the item from the stack), and be in their
program without ever seeing an ssh invocation. Call it silly if you
like, but I don't see where the functionality's much different.
Seems like your complaint is that X11.app used to be able to act as a
launcher and now it doesn't. So now you'll have to use the same
launcher as the rest of the OS. Or find one of the dozens of other
launchers that could do the trick for you. If you really hate that
idea, seems like something could be whipped up in Applescript studio
without too much trouble...
-Patrick
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