Re: Bug#355706: xdm: Xsetup stopped working

[Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:21:51PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, I still consider my bug report to be valid.  The documented way to
configure the login screen has stopped working.

Please put the appropriate line back in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config.

Regards

Diego