[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for the help, guys. Seems I hosed the file I created with > xf86config during the installation. Re-ran that, added the line below, > and that fixed the problem. Now if I could find a replacement for that > ghastly login screen...
You can design your own login screens with the xbanner package. I don't particulary like the default screen that comes with the Debian package but you can tweak xbanner to produce a screen to suit yourself. > > Hey, while I'm thinking about it and since I can't try it right now, > would adding a line like > > :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X > > allow me to use VT08 for another login, or do I have to do something else? > I had trouble getting that idea to work consistently but here's a solution I'e found. I use xdm for my initial login and then with these lines added to the end of ~/.bash_profile to accomodate logins from VC's. The first gets VT08, the next VT09, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------- if [ `tty` = "/dev/console" -a $TERM = "sun" -o $TERM = linux ]; then VC=1 while [ -f /tmp/.X${VC}-lock ] do VC=`expr $VC + 1` done Display=`expr $VC + 7` export DISPLAY=:$VC echo "Starting X on VC $Display (type Ctrl-C to interrupt)" sleep 5 if [ $? = 0 ]; then #startx -- :${VC} -bpp 16 > /dev/null 2>&1 startx -- :${VC} -bpp 8 > /dev/null 2>&1 clear echo -n "Automatically logging out (type Ctrl-C to interrupt)" sleep 5 clear logout # logout after leaving windows system fi clear fi -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .