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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  FAQ: image on xdm background?
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Date: 5 Apr 91 04:13:38 GMT
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> I think this has been raised before,

Yup :-)

> but... we're looking to get a different background under the xdm
> login window other than the 50% gray that it defaults to.

50% gray?  You seem to have an unusual server.  The root background is
normally a 1:3 white:black (ie, 1/4 intensity overall) pattern.

> The Xreset script doesn't work, it just wipes it to gray anyway.
> Anybody remember how to do this, as I said I think this has been
> figured out before, but back aways.

The trick is to use the xrdb hook provided by xdm.  You need to point
xdm's xrdb program at something - a shell script works and is simple -
that does whatever you want (and runs the real xrdb to install the
resources, of course).

I used to have a working example of this, but it was on a machine whose
disk has since been "recycled" to hold other things, so that example
now exists only on backup tapes....

					der Mouse

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