Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:11:12 -0500 From: Kevin Weiss <kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: xdm and painting the root window Message-ID: <19990418201414.72D5714F1B@hub.freebsd.org>
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I now have xdm working, not I'm just wondering how to customize it. I want to change the background login screen (root window). I checked previous mailing list archives, and found references to using "xsetroot". I tried "xsetroot -bitmap ....", but xdm-errors reported "bad bitmap file format", or something like that. I also saw reference to using "xv" to do this. However, it wasn't clear (to me) how to use "xv" with graphical file. Does the graphical file have to be in a certain format (*.bmp, *.jpg, *.gif)? In my case, it's a *.gif file. Any recommendations? Suggestions? Thanks in advance. Kevin Weiss kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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