logging out WM from VNC

[Tristan Richardson]

> Are there ways to prevent users to logout from the
> window manager so that subsequent users can run
> VNC with nice window manager for their X sessions.

You could put a while loop around the command to start the window manager in
the xstartup script, e.g.:

#!/bin/sh
xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
while twm; do
  sleep 1
done

This does however rely on the window manager exiting with zero (success) when
shut down cleanly and non-zero when dying because Xvnc has been killed.

Cheers

Tristan

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