Re: XDM startup screen
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:33:25PM +0100, Koen Colpaert wrote: After some experimenting with Suse, Slackware and Mandrake I turned to Debian. After installing and configuring X I was presented with a grey xdm-display as a loginscreen. I was wondering if there aren't any better background images available and where can I find them. Hi, You could also look into wdm as an alternative X display manager. The default configuration of wdm doesn't provide a background image, but it has a nice login widget with the Debian logo in it. You can configure it to put an image in the background, and you can choose your window manager from the wdm login screen. For me the big advantage of wdm over xdm is that I can configure it so that anyone can reboot the machine without typing a password (this is a boon on single-user machines like mine in which the keyboard dies after an X session, forcing one to reboot, that too with the mouse alone). Best, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Harish-Chandra Research Institute | Eloquence is logic on fire. GnuPG public key at:| http://riemann.mri.ernet.in/~raghu/ |
Re: XDM startup screen
ยป N. Raghavendra disse isso e eu digo aquilo: On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:33:25PM +0100, Koen Colpaert wrote: After some experimenting with Suse, Slackware and Mandrake I turned to Debian. After installing and configuring X I was presented with a grey xdm-display as a loginscreen. I was wondering if there aren't any better background images available and where can I find them. There are two files you would like to see: /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources -- this is THE Xresources file. It contains intructions for geometry, colors, fonts and messages for the windows that appear at the login. /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_? -- this file runs some commands like xconsole and xsetroot, that you probably know what is. ;-) There is a file for each display. Xsetup_0 deals with display :0 and so on. -- []'s, francisco m. neto (a.k.a ikari himura keiichi) Linux User #192809 ICQ #78493934 http://socrates.if.usp.br/~einstein Toke au kokoro ga, watashi o kowasu -- Ayanami Rei
XDM startup screen
Howdy, After some experimenting with Suse, Slackware and Mandrake I turned to Debian. After installing and configuring X I was presented with a grey xdm-display as a loginscreen. I was wondering if there aren't any better background images available and where can I find them. TIA Koen --- On the requirements it said: Windows 95 or better - so I installed Linux ---
Re: XDM startup screen
xbanner Koen Colpaert wrote: Howdy, After some experimenting with Suse, Slackware and Mandrake I turned to Debian. After installing and configuring X I was presented with a grey xdm-display as a loginscreen. I was wondering if there aren't any better background images available and where can I find them. TIA Koen --- On the requirements it said: Windows 95 or better - so I installed Linux --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XDM startup screen
To quote Koen Colpaert [EMAIL PROTECTED], # After some experimenting with Suse, Slackware and Mandrake I turned to # Debian. After installing and configuring X I was presented with a grey # xdm-display as a loginscreen. I was wondering if there aren't any better # background images available and where can I find them. Check out http://x.themes.org . It has lots of miscellaneous themes; for instance, it has XDM themes :) Dave
XDM startup?
How can I get apps to start automatically with X if its using XDM? Before I used to use .xnitirc, but this doesnt seem to work any more since apt installed xdm. :(. Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 06-Sep-99 Time: 11:34:46 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Re: XDM startup?
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 11:36:17AM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote: How can I get apps to start automatically with X if its using XDM? Before I used to use .xnitirc, but this doesnt seem to work any more since apt installed xdm. :(. XDM usually looks at /etc/X11/Xsession which looks for a ~/.xsession. It may be enough to symlink .xsession to .xinitrc.
RE: XDM startup?
How can I get apps to start automatically with X if its using XDM? Before I used to use .xnitirc, but this doesnt seem to work any more since apt installed xdm. :(. If you're using KDE, all you have to do is make an icon to the program and put it into the Autostart folder. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/
Re: xdm startup?
Martin == Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most likely you told dpkg to keep your old /etc/init.d/xdm file, which was a dummy script. So that dummy script is part of the base installation? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm startup?
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin == Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most likely you told dpkg to keep your old /etc/init.d/xdm file, which was a dummy script. So that dummy script is part of the base installation? Don't know. I just wanted to say, that there was already a /etc/init.d/xdm file and you told dpkg to keep it. According to dpkg, xbase is owner of /etc/init.d/xdm. Maybe it didn't configure on the first run due to unresolved dependencies and you intalled/configured it again after installing a xserver or something. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xdm startup?
I've recently reinstalled Debian 1.3 (on a system with a new disk) and found that after installing xbase and xserver-svga, xdm wouldn't start. After looking about a bit, I found that /etc/init.d/xdm was empty and that the start up script was in /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist. Can anyone help me sort out where I went wrong? Or is this a feature that I don't understand? Regards, Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm startup?
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wouldn't start. After looking about a bit, I found that /etc/init.d/xdm was empty and that the start up script was in /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist. Can anyone help me sort out where I went wrong? Or is this a feature that I don't understand? This is a dpkg feature. Imagine you use leafnode and have customised your /etc/leafnode.conf. Now you install a new version of leafnode. dpkg will notice that there is already a /etc/leafnode.conf and if will ask what to do. - You can keep your old config, then dpkg will install the config file from the package as /etc/leafnode.conf.dpkg-dist, so you don't loose your customisation, but still can inspect the package maintainers version. - You can install the package maintainer's version of the config file. dpkg will automaticaly rename your old config file to /etc/leafnode.conf.dpkg-old, so you can revert to your custom file. Most likely you told dpkg to keep your old /etc/init.d/xdm file, which was a dummy script. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm startup?
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've recently reinstalled Debian 1.3 (on a system with a new disk) and found that after installing xbase and xserver-svga, xdm wouldn't start. After looking about a bit, I found that /etc/init.d/xdm was empty and that the start up script was in /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist. Can anyone help me sort out where I went wrong? Or is this a feature that I don't understand? What seems to have happened is that something created an empty /etc/init.d/xdm file. When it installed xdm, dpkg, finding an existing file, assumed that you knew what you were doing and so didn't replace the empty /etc/init.d/xdm - this is the way dpkg behaves with all files that are considered configuration files. As to how to hunt down what caused the empty /etc/init.d/xdm, I'm not sure. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
