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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: changing login panel
Message-ID: <295@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 4 Feb 90 21:44:15 GMT
References: <42814@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <42814@lanl.gov> jpm@lanl.gov (James P Mcgee) writes:
>Want to have some fun with your login panel?  Just login as
>root, browse to /usr/lib/NextStep, then double click on
>nextlogin.tiff.  Edit to your hearts content. Save.

It's a very bad idea, IMHO, to change vendor-supplied files when
it's unnecessary.

Try copying nextlogin.tiff and doing
	dwrite loginwindow ImageFile /your/file/name
(logged in as or su'ed to root)
The alternate file will take effect the next time loginwindow
loads (i.e. after typing "exit" or "console" or rebooting).
It does not have to be in /usr/lib/NextStep either, so you can
put it someplace that normally gets backed up.

Other than keeping the same size and fields for username/password,
you can do pretty much what you want with the pixels.  If you've
also used
	dwrite loginwindow HostName localhost
to display the hostname on top, there will be fairly obvious
additional constraints.

We have two files we use in preference to NeXT's available for
anonymous FTP from sutro.sfsu.edu if you'd like to look at them:

	gatorlogin.tiff		SFSU mascot (scanned image)
	sfsulogo.tiff		Official SFSU logo (by hand)

					-=EPS=-