From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 1 20: 2:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4.erols.com (smtp4.erols.com [207.172.3.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1CF614DE0 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 20:02:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (207-172-144-15.s15.as4.hgt.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.144.15]) by smtp4.erols.com (8.8.8/smtp-v1) with ESMTP id XAA04236; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:02:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 23:03:06 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Andrew Boothman Subject: Re: FreeBSD & X Cc: Phil Regnauld , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, chris@calldei.com, Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If you want a nice looking login screen for X, check out kdm.. a xdm replacement that comes as part of KDE. On 01-Jun-99 Andrew Boothman wrote: > On 01-Jun-99 Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> xdm has very little to do with selecting the desktop look-and-feel, >> unfortunately. :) > >:) I was referring to the fact that it gets a GUI in front of the > desktop user on startup. And that might perhaps help FreeBSD > make a bigger impact on the desktop OS market. > > It could be an option on installation..... > > Also xbanner allows customisation of the xdm login box, so that we > could give it a more FreeBSD-centric look. (ie a few pictures of > chuck chucked around) > > --- > Andrew Boothman > http://sour.cream.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message