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From: stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Stumpf)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  FAQ: image on xdm background?
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.131300@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Date: 9 Apr 91 11:13:00 GMT
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In article <9104050413.AA03245@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>, mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse) writes:
|> 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
Maybe I can help you out!
Used this during xmas time on various of our workstations!

In (mostly) /usr/lib/X11/xdm add/change the line for xrdb to
	DisplayManager*xrdb:      /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xrdb+xsetroot

and add a file to that directory called xrdb+xsetroot
which should look similar to:

#!/bin/sh
#
/usr/bin/X11/xrdb "$@"
/usr/bin/X11/xsetroot -display $2 -bitmap /usr/wiss/stumpf/bitmaps/xmastree.xbm
exit 0

Note: you have to completely restart xdm to get it to work!

Have fun!

	\Maex

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