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- From: manion@cygnus.fccc.edu (Frank J. Manion)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: xv root tile as background for login screen
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.195815.5587@fccc.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 19:58:15 GMT
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- In article <1e3q54INNcen@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au>, andrewr@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford) writes:
- > Prateek Dwivedi (teek@flight.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
- >
- > + I have found a few gif files we would like to use, and we view them with
- > + xv (which also allows us to use the pictures as backgrounds on our
- > + xterminals.
- > +
- > + The problem is that we don't know how to force the picture to be the
- > + background for the login screen. Any ideas?
- >
- > Well, everyone so far seems to assume you're running xdm - as
- > it's quit possible you're not, there's another way of doing it. You can
- > tell xprompter to display some arbitrary postscript code rather than
- > the default postscript code with the "digital" logo. Well, since you've
- > got xv, use its Save feature to save the pic as postscript, then get
- > xprompter to display that.
- > However, I would like to suggest you go to xdm anyway. The
- > flexibility and Xauthority stuff makes it all worthwhile.
- >
- > Cya,
- > Andrew.
- >
-
- Well, everyone so far seems to assume you are on the workstation
- console. Does anyone know how to change the background if you are on
- an X-terminal (without the Display Postscript X-extensions)?
- BTW: Dec support claims it's not possible. Does anyone know otherwise?
-