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Miscellaneous => Programming & Networking => Topic started by: Kintaro on 18 August 2002, 07:49

Title: curses login
Post by: Kintaro on 18 August 2002, 07:49

Is there a "lgin" program for Linux done in curses, or would i have to modify the original. If your wondering why i would nee one.. I dont, its just for some nice eye candy.

Also i plan on writing a very simple menu program to select programs (for shell) in linux.

Title: curses login
Post by: voidmain on 18 August 2002, 21:06

Do you mean is there a program written in curses that will bring up a menu when you login to a virtual terminal?  If so, there are many curses based menu programs that you can add to your ".bash_login".  Heck, the easiest way to build a nice text based color menu would be to write a shell script utilizing the "dialog" command.  This generates ncurses based menus and prompts very easily.

Title: curses login
Post by: Kintaro on 18 August 2002, 21:44

Yes thats what i was thinging but, im wanting to modify the "login" program and make it use curses, unless its already done. I mainly just want to gain skill in C/C++

Title: curses login
Post by: voidmain on 18 August 2002, 21:49

I would suggest that before trying to modify "login" you just write a standalone app using curses that you can add to your ".bash_login".  It would basically serve the same purpose.  Or is it the login text itself that you want to change?  As in the information in "/etc/issue"?

Title: curses login
Post by: Kintaro on 18 August 2002, 10:25

The login itself.