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- From: fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: fantasy style login image
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.002419.26216@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 00:24:19 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.032924.9696@macc.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager)
- Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- In article <1992Dec23.032924.9696@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu
- (Jess Anderson) writes:
- > In article <1h7gl4INNeeo@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- > isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:
- >
- > ># dwrite loginwindow ImageFile fullPathForNewLoginPanelTiff
- >
- > >Then restart the window server as Jess described.
- >
- > Naturally I tried that. Doesn't work, at least not for me.
- > I'd like confirmation that it *does* work under 3.0, for
- > someone. Standard-issue 3.0, off the CD-ROM. Needless to
- > say, I've checked *very* carefully that the dwrite was set
- > as Art (and others) have mentioned.
- >
-
- Aside from needing to do this from root, be sure to restart the
- loginwindow.app, which as someone informed me by email can be done most
- easily by putting "exit" as the username, and a blank password. Of
- course, rebooting the whole machine will work too, I guess. :)
-
- Michael
-