Re: changing xdm settings

[ctrlER <ctrler@zmail.pt>]

Thank you all for your help :)

Jeff Stevens wrote:
> 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/
>
>
>
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> > > 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.