starting an X11 session from Python

[Philippe C. Martin]

Hi,

Have there been any attempt to do so, and is there any source out there that
could help me get started ?

Regards,

Philippe

 

[Sybren Stuvel]

Philippe C. Martin enlightened us with:

Have there been any attempt to do so, and is there any source out
there that could help me get started ?

What's stopping you from using system(), exec() or the likes to start
"startx", "xinit" or simply "X"?

Sybren

 

[Philippe C. Martin]

Nothing, but that was not my question.

Regards,

Philippe

 

[Philippe C. Martin]

PS: my goal is to write an equivalent of gdm/kdm/xdm ... in python

Regards,

Philippe

 

[Richard Townsend]

Hi,

Have there been any attempt to do so, and is there any source out there that
could help me get started ?

Regards,

Philippe

Have you tried:
http://python-xlib.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-xlib

 

[Philippe C. Martin]

Thanks I will look, I intend to use tkinter for the display as it is
built-in though.

Regards,

Philippe