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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!bt!btnet!zippy.dct.ac.uk!yama.mcc.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!warwick!bsmail!inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk!hedley Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xdm query.. Message-ID: <DHoEvn.EAJ@uns.bris.ac.uk> From: hedley@inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk (David Hedley) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 13:59:47 GMT Reply-To: David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk Sender: usenet@uns.bris.ac.uk (Usenet news owner) References: <47iiii$jd5@turtle.apana.org.au> <DHM8M2.yI@gnome.co.uk> Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Bristol, England Nntp-Posting-Host: inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 50 Chris Stenton (jacs@gnome.co.uk) wrote: : Robert Nagy (nagy@turtle.apana.org.au) wrote: : : Hi Folks, : : : : I just found out about xdm and thought it would be neat to add a graphic : : gif/jpg to the login screen. I've checked the man pages but didn't see : : anything highly relevant. Here's how I get a picture on the login screen: excerpt from /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config DisplayManager._0.setup: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 DisplayManager._0.startup: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole My /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 script: #!/bin/sh # $XConsortium: Xsetup_0,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:31 gildea Exp $ #xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail xsetroot -solid black xv -geometry +320-200 -viewonly /usr/local/etc/title.gif & echo $! >/var/pid/xv and my /usr/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole #!/bin/sh # Assign ownership of the console to the invoking user # $XConsortium: GiveConsole,v 1.2 93/09/28 14:29:20 gildea Exp $ # # By convention, both xconsole and xterm -C check that the # console is owned by the invoking user and is readable before attaching # the console output. This way a random user can invoke xterm -C without # causing serious grief. # chown $USER /dev/console kill `cat /var/pid/xv` xsetroot -default xset fp rehash Hope this helps David -- David Hedley (David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk) http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~hedley/ finger hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk for PGP key Computer Graphics Group | University of Bristol | UK *** All opinions expressed are mine and mine alone ***