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Date:      Mon, 8 Dec 1997 22:10:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Desktop Pics
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208215714.17281A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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Hi..sorry to the multimedia guys, if they mind.

I got bored.   >>:->

Anyone need to spice up their desktop or Xlogin window?

http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/fbsd-desktops.html

Submissions/better ones would be cool.  A Xlogin window of the day would
be pretty neat ;-)

Use something like this to select it...

xv -root -quit `ls ~dwhite/desktops | random | head -1`

Slap into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 and off you go. 

Or run from /etc/daily....

PICTURE = `ls ~dwhite/desktops | random | head -1`
rm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/set_login.sh
echo "#!/bin/sh" > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/set_login.sh
echo "xv -root -quit $PICTURE" >> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/set_login.sh

#Xsetup_0
./set_login.sh
xconsole .....

Oh wow, time for some caffiene :-)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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