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From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xsetroot in xdm?
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Date: 2 Aug 90 14:47:38 GMT
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> > 
> > Try to put the next command in the file /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xreset:
> > 	xsetroot -bitmap "filename"
> 
> I have tried this before, but there was no result. Is there
> any other way to change the background inbetween the xdm
> sessions? 

The only place you can put xsetroot and get it to work is inside a shell script
which runs as a replacement for xrdb (the name of which is configurable inside
xdm-config).  You'll need to extract the display name from the argument list
passed to xrdb (fixed in next release).  Here's an example:

(/usr/lib/X11/xdm/xrdb+xsetroot)
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/X11/xrdb "$@"
/usr/bin/X11/xsetroot -display $2 -bitmap /usr/include/X11/bitmaps/escherknot
exit 0

(add to /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config)
DisplayManager*xrdb:	/usr/lib/X11/xdm/xrdb+xsetroot

No, I haven't tested this exact script, but I have run similar scripts quite
successfully.

Keith Packard
MIT X Consortium