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From: victoria@sbi.UUCP (Victoria Drozdov)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xsetroot in xdm?
Message-ID: <378@sbi.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 90 23:01:57 GMT
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In article <0ahI2TxY0005MEEFA4@rucageo>, pive@BANRUC01.BITNET writes:
> 
> Try to put the next command in the file /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xreset:
> 	xsetroot -bitmap "filename"
> each time you logout, xdm executes the file Xreset.....
> 
> 
> P. Verhaeghe
> E-mail: pive@banruc01.bitnet (or pive@ccu.uia.ac.be)

I have tried this before, but there was no result. Is there
any other way to change the background inbetween the xdm
sessions? (I did find another way, by making the border width
of the xdm login window very large. But this only solves the
problem of a solid background. How about bitmas?)