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Re: Anyone want to make a Debian XDM login screen?



"Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@efis.ucr.ac.cr> writes:
> On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Frederic Peters wrote:
> 
> > background where you type your login/password have to be in
> > only one color, no pixmap. Except that fact, I think a login
> > screen with only xdm (+xloadimage) can be really cool.  I am ok
> > to make a great login screen. For graphics, I am not the man.
> > Why not call for graphics from the web site like when we were
> > looking for a logo ?  That's all. 

> you may want to take a look at login.app, that just uploaded.

login.app is not an xdm replacement.  xdm handles remote sessions too.
I would really be disappointed to see Debian using Login.app instead
of xdm.

Some choices here are:

 1) A modified version of xdm-external+gtkgreet (from the web site
    mentioned earlier in this thread.

 2) Some (tasteful) X banner stuff in the background of a normal xdm
    screen.

They both would be easy, but with the first option I would be
concerned by the rapidly changing state of the gtk libraries.  (Red
Hat is basing some gui apps on gtk, so users are unable to install
newer versions of the gtk libraries without breaking these apps.)

If the second option is chosen, the designer should make sure that the
it works on 640x480 screens.  (Some people still use 640x480
laptop computers - this causes problems with some software, including
the electronic eyes "About" box.)


Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu


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