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From: "Steve Sims" <SimsS@IBM.Net>
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Subject: [Q} xdm root window on local console
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:30:39 -0400
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Oh great and wise ones:

As a command-line kinda guy in a point-n-click world, I'm at a loss.

I start `xdm` in rc.local at boot time and it (sure 'nuff) pops up a login
window on the local console as well as manages "remote" sessions by a variety
of X servers.

My questions are:

1) How can I (or *can I*) set a picture in the root window on the local
console while it sits waiting for a user to log in?  I'd like to have 'Chuck'
sitting quietly under the login dialog so people knew what was under the
X-covers.

2) Assuming I can do 1) above, anyone have a pointer to a kewl graphic to
use?  (I use `xearth` on *my* sessions, so individual sessions don't matter,
but on the console I'd like to see some graphic that represents "Powered by
FreeBSD".

3) What's the seminal 'X for Dummies" book at which I should be looking?

Thanks!

...sjs...