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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: re: novice questions
Message-ID: <8812121744.AA14511@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 12 Dec 88 17:44:11 GMT
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Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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>> Is there any way for a non-superuser to change the color of a root-owned
>> login xterm window (X11R2)?
>
> ... there's not much you can do.

Gee, another chance to plug xdm!  :-)

Getting rid of that silly login window is one of several reasons why xdm was
written.  You might want to ask whoever is maintaining your machines to upgrade
to R3.