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From: keith@panews
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Subject: Re: background screen loader
Summary: Don't you mean Workspace?
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.203742.20623@panews>
Date: 15 Oct 90 20:37:42 GMT
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In article <18600014@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>     Is there a way to change the background WITHOUT a running WindowServer?
>For example, if the NeXT is displaying the login window, the WindowServer
>isn't running.  So, if the NeXT doesn't have someone logged in, I can't
>change the background.  I'd like to have a timed, ~daily change of the
>background without assuming that the WindowServer is active.
>     Any possibility?  Thanks a lot for your replies!
>

Don't you mean the Workspace, not the WindowServer?  The WindowServer
MUST be running if the loginwindow is up.  Once the userid/passwd is
accepted in the loginwindow, the Workspace then comes up.

What you need to do is write a small PostScript program that inserts
a window with your picture above the root window.  I don't know exactly
how, but someone around here used to do it.

BTW: Running scene with -NXHost doesn't work.  It puts the picture on
the machine that it's window appears on.

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