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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: fantasy style login image
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.135658.1340@macc.wisc.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 13:56:58 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.113550.3620@fokus.gmd.de> <1992Dec21.224618.13182@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1992Dec22.101601.20122@macc.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.101601.20122@macc.wisc.edu>
- anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
-
- Sure as hell someone will misread my (admittedly a bit
- garbled) syntax, do the wrong thing, and then I'll feel
- guilty for some small number of microseconds. Why risk it?
-
- >As root:
-
- >cd /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/English.lproj
-
- >If you've never changed your login panel tiff before, save
- >the original (which is just good system administration, eh?):
-
- >mv nextlogin.tiff nextlogin.tiff.orig
-
- You only need to do this once, of course.
-
- >Then put your new tiff in its place:
-
- >cp -p <yourpath/yourimage.tiff> nextlogin.tiff
-
- This is probably better written as:
-
- cp -p yourpath/yourimage.tiff nextlogin.tiff
-
- so somebody doesn't try redirection.
-
- >If English isn't your local language, your *.lproj directory
- >will be appropriately different, of course.
-
- >Then log out, and type exit<return> as the login name; that
- ^on the resulting login panel (the old one, still)
- >restarts the Window Server, bringing up the new login panel.
-
- Many people have said you kill the Windowserver by giving
- 'exit' as the login name and <return> as the password. This
- isn't actually correct; exit<return> does it and there is no
- associated password prompt.
-
- >Woe to you if you've misspelled the name nextlogin.tiff, so
- >be careful.
-
- No login panel will appear, which means you will next be
- booting in single-user mode, fixing the error, and
- continuing the boot.
-
- >Within NeXTstep, logged on as root, you can open
- >loginwindow.app with command-O, similarly
- ><local_language.lproj>, rename the old file, and drag in a
- >copy of the new one.
-
- Renaming it nextlogin.tiff, of course.
-
- >I've been designing a big batch of new login panel tiffs and
- >am about to release them to the world (I wasn't sure of the
- >world was all that interested), so I've done this a lot
- >lately.
-
- It's a funny thing. I spent really a *lot* of hours in my
- various draw programs and in Icon, making these things, some
- of which are fairly complex. After maybe a hundred of them
- (75 since pitched out, perhaps), I finally felt a very
- simple one would be best, for me. Since I have my
- background set to black, many of the ones I made look best
- on that and would not seem as mysterious or grand or
- whatever on a grey background. Oh, that reminds me: they're
- all monochrome, as I have no access to color (good thing,
- too, because then hundreds, rather than tens, of hours would
- have been consumed fiddling with those possibilities. It
- was all therapeutic, I guess.
-
- --
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