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Subject: Re: background pixmap at boot time
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970320111602.13540B-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from Andrzej Bialecki at "Mar 20, 97 11:22:39 am"
To: abial@korin.warman.org.pl (Andrzej Bialecki)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 12:33:00 +0100 (MET)
Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
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In reply to Andrzej Bialecki who wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I may be wrong but wasn't there a facility to allow for a background
> > picture to show at boot time or setup time (a la MS dark blue screen
> > at Win95 setup or Win95 coudy sky)? The motif will be another question,
> > though.
> > 
> > --
> > Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> > 
> 
> Michael Smith prepared patch for -current to do this. It works and it's
> nice :-) He put it at his ftp site, but the URL escaped me.

ftp.gsoft.com.au  IIRC

> BTW, I think there should be an ioctl call to this to turn it off at the
> end of booting (just before the login prompt comes up), to avoid confusion
> amongst unaware ones ;-) It took me some time to guess what key is used to
> go back to normal screen... (u know, sometimes I'm a risky guy: I apply
> patches and don't read the docs to the very end).

Hmm, this is still a hack, its supposed to be a key definable via
the keymap...

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