From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 12 19:16:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA19736 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:16:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA19726 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:16:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id TAA22798; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:16:20 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:16:20 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Koum X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Terry Lambert cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... In-Reply-To: <199801122125.OAA20388@usr09.primenet.com> 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 Do you still have it? It would look great with afterstep :) -- Yan On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: >> > It would seem to me that your best bet would be to consider making a >> > custom version of 'getty' with libvgl, since getty is going to >> > determine how idle time between logins should be handled. That's >> > pretty well out of syscons's jurisdiction. >> > >> > Actually, making just such a thing just got put on my TODO list. >> >> It's a very short step from there to a semi-graphical login (eg. login >> dialog rather than login/password prompt.) I could see people liking >> that. > >They can enable it in the /etc/ttys. > >Heh. Reminds me. I made an xdm clone of the NeXT login screen >a long time ago. It even "shook" left and right on failure. 8-). > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. >