Re: XDM background

[David Purton <dcpurton@chariot.net.au>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, COLPAERT, Koen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I installed Debian without any difficulties but I'm not amused with the
> grey loginscreen from XDM. Someone told me to change this using xbanner
> but that didn't satisfy me. Another user pointed me to some backgrounds
> for XDM at http://x.themes.org . I took a nice Debian background (
> http://x.themes.org/php/pic.phtml?src=resources/xdm.969685173.jpg ) but
> don't know how I can show it at the XDM-startup/login. How do I do this?
> 

This worked for me.

Add the following line to /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0:

/usr/X11R6/bin/xv -root -maxpect -rmode 5 -quit image.jpg


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David Purton

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