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From: alan@pivot.sbi.com (Alan Zeigler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xdm root window
Summary: not a solution, just a kludge
Message-ID: <931@pivot.sbi.com>
Date: 26 Jan 91 06:53:39 GMT
References: <JIM.91Jan25091218@fuji.eng.Yale.edu>
Followup-To: comp.windows.x
Organization: Pivot  - Salomon Brothers, NY
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In article <JIM.91Jan25091218@fuji.eng.Yale.edu>, jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu (James J. Szinger) writes:
> I'd like to get it to display colors and bitmaps while displaying 
> the login prompt.

This kludge doesn't entirely address your problem, i.e. you can't
display arbitrary bitmaps ala xsetroot, but it does allow you
to get a somewhat more pleasant background color on the xdm login
screen ...

I get a bit queazy looking at the default X stipple pattern so I
bumped the borderwidth of the xdm login window to cover the whole
screen.	 Here's the relevant chunk of my Xresource file:

	#ifdef				COLOR

	*background			: #cccccc
	*borderColor			: #40a0c0
	*foreground			: #000000
	*greetColor			: #000000
	*promptColor			: #000000
	*failColor			: #ff0000

	#endif				COLOR

	*borderWidth			: 400
	*geometry			: +-150+-100

The login window comes up grey on a blue "root" for my color machines
and white on black for my mono.	 One caveat, the geometry specification
is a bit hard-coded for my greeting message and for Sun frame buffer
dimensions (1152x900), so you'll have to diddle them a bit for your
setup (and get fancier with the #if's if your running in a hetero.
environment).  Hope it helps...
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