From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 30 18:28:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DE6714D4A for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 18:28:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA31155; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:28:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:28:06 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: xdm background image? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi guys, On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 31-Jan-00 Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > So, what are people using as background image for the xdm login > > screen? Plain gray (or any other solid color) is kind of boring. > > Try the wdm port.. its neat :) You can do a LOT w/ xdm. I've seen people have a runnable version of xanim in the xdm login. That said I haven't messed about w/ wdm since the last time I tried it (a long time ago) it wouldn't compile, even out of ports! I know it's worked since then, but I haven't mucked w/ it. > The picture the port comes with, of course, rocks :) If you just want that image head over to: http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/gif/bsd/ You could also take a splash screen, convert from bmp, and use it instead: http://www.baldwin.cx/splash/ Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message