Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alberto,

On Thursday 22 September 2005 03:42, you wrote:
> Hi Randall,
>
> This is wonderful. Sorry for the direct email but I wanted to ask
> you: can it be displayed before the logon screen? The users should
> see it before they supply username and password.

Two (and a half) things:

1) I'm not sure, but I don't think so, not without some lower-level 
programming than simple shell scripting.
2) If we put this message on the list, someone more knowledgeable than I 
might give you a better answer.
2a) I've redirected this reply back to the list.


> Thanks,
> Alberto
>
> On Wednesday 21 September 2005 11:17 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > Use one of the commands dialog, kdialog or Xdialog to present the
> > dialog you require. They can be given labelled buttons and you can
> > test that the required button was clicked. You can put the
> > pertinent invocation into /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/csh.cshrc and / or
> > /etc/zshrc (and the system-wide start-up script for any and all
> > shell in use on your system).


Randall Schulz