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Date:      Wed, 11 Jun 1997 02:44:52 -0400
From:      "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@onyx.interactive.net>
To:        ashworth@cs.montana.edu
Cc:        Zoltan Sebestyen <sebesty@cs.elte.hu>, FreeBSD questions mailinglist <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Xdm - xlogin 
Message-ID:  <199706110644.CAA01072@ithaca>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jun 1997 06:31:26 -0000." <339CF4BE.AF3CCA82@spacehog.structured.net> 

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>  >  I've just modified /etc/ttys to start X by xdm(didn't want to bother
>  > with login/startx). Now I've got two questions: Does anyone know the
>  > resources of xlogin(I'd like to change the background and some properties
>  > of the xlogin window)? Before that change I've set XAPPLRESDIR to
>  > ~/app-defaults where some of my X resource files reside. How can I tell
>  > xdm the same thing? (It surely won't read my .bash_profile :-)
>  
>  There's all kinds of fun stuff in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm (assuming you
>  installed to the default directory). I strongly recomment you take a
>  look at http://chaos.fullerton.edu/XBanner/ as well.
>  
There was an article on Xbanner a few months ago in _Linux Journal_. You might 
look there, too. The URL is http://www.ssc.com/
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Chris Booth
cbooth@onyx.interactive.net




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