From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 12 13:27:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA03151 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:27:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA02841 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:26:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25357; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:25:57 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd025268; Mon Jan 12 14:25:49 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20388; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:25:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199801122125.OAA20388@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:25:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: joelh@gnu.org, bsdhack@shadows.aeon.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199801120248.NAA01045@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Jan 12, 98 01:18:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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.