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Follow up: How to write a Linux virus

Follow up: How to write a Linux virus

Posted Feb 13, 2009 19:00 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Follow up: How to write a Linux virus by efexis
Parent article: Follow up: How to write a Linux virus

Unix (and thus Linux) is a multiuser system. I.e., each of the multiple users might have very well like different graphical interfases (each with its own icon set), or just use their own icons. That Windows (which is still very much a one user operating system, with just one graphical interface) does it differently is completely irrelevant.


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Follow up: How to write a Linux virus

Posted Feb 14, 2009 11:08 UTC (Sat) by etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr (guest, #38022) [Link]

Nobody said that the icon_file_path was an absolute path, it could be "application/textmode/editor/vi.xpm" and prefixed by default with "/usr/X11R6/icon", but can be overwritten by environment variable ICON_PATH pointing to the user directory...

Follow up: How to write a Linux virus

Posted Feb 16, 2009 9:18 UTC (Mon) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

Excuse me if I sound rude, but I would give up themeability (sp?) for security any day. Changing the vi icon is not even in my list of desired features.

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