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Re: Bug#355706: xdm: Xsetup stopped working



On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 03:14:21PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> sometime in January xdm stopped displaying a background picture (and
> boy, that gray grid pattern is ugly..).  It seems that support for
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup was dropped silently.  This contradicts the
> documentation since xdm.1 still says that background images should be
> set using Xsetup.

No, /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup is still the place.  The problem is that the XSF
dropped the line from /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config that told xdm to actually USE
it.  You can put it back yourself.

See bug #347857.

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