Re: changing xdm settings

[Jeff Stevens <jeff@mossycup.com>]

Ricardo,

Once you have changed your background color, you may find configuring
the actual XDM login window useful.  The XDM man page [1] covers a
number of X resources that will configure how the various widgets in the
login window are drawn.  I believe XDM in Debian
reads /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources.  Also, this project [2] covers some
details of configuring a pretty XDM.

[1]  http://man.linuxquestions.org/?query=xdm&section=0&type=2
[2]  http://www.kaszeta.org/rich/unix/xterminal/



> > I would like to change xdm default background (the one that apears when 
> > the login information is prompted) to solid black.
> > Does anybody what file I have to edit to change that?
> > 
> > I was thinking of something along the line of
> > 
> > 	xsetroot -solid black
> > 
> > but I dont know where to put it.
> > 
> Put it in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup, or add "-br" to the command line in
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.