Inspired by your cute reboot/halt button hack, I added it plus a
little background color to my own xdm. Everyone here is pretty happy
with the result.
--BAP.
Added to the bottom of /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
# reboot button
/usr/bin/wish EOF
wm
Subject: Re: Anyone want to make a Debian XDM login screen?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:21:52 -0600 (MDT)
From: Barak Pearlmutter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: David A. van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Inspired by your cute reboot/halt button hack, I added it plus
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Previously Brian Mays wrote:
There is an easy way to get this button on your screen, assuming that you
have the TCL/TK packages installed.
I've done the same thing (using Motif), but added a confirmation check..
I've found that when I move the
Hi.
Brian Mays wrote :
This will pop up two buttons in the lower left corner of your screen. The
Halt button will shut down your system, while the Reboot button will
reboot (useful if you also have Windows 95 *yuck* on your computer).
So, going back to the initial message about a cool XDM
David Welton wrote:
With all due respect, this seems more like a matter of local
configuration on your part rather than what the standard for Debian
should be. If we have decided that we want ctrl-alt-del to take the
system down, then it should do it consistantly.
My point is that since it
Raul Miller wrote:
I've several times been very glad ctrl-alt-del did not work in X. You see,
my main server is often in X, another computer here isn't, and I typically
get the keyboards confused and breath a huge sigh of relief when I realize X
ignored the ctrl-alt-del.
That can be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David A. van Leeuwen) wrote:
I'd opt for a `shutdown' button on the XDM login screen.
Right now there isn't a simple way of bringing the machine down---as
far as i know. Even ctrl-alt-del doesn't work in XFree86.
Of course, care should be taken that this can be done only
Previously Brian Mays wrote:
There is an easy way to get this button on your screen, assuming that you
have the TCL/TK packages installed.
I've done the same thing (using Motif), but added a confirmation check..
I've found that when I move the mouse or press a mousebutton when the
screen is in
Branden Robinson wrote:
Wanted:
Someone to follow the lead set at http://tr.ml.org/~tom/software/xdm/
and create a Debian XDM login screen featuring Mr. Blue-Eye or something.
I'd opt for a `shutdown' button on the XDM login screen.
Right now there isn't a simple way of bringing the
David A. van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even ctrl-alt-del doesn't work in XFree86.
ctrl-alt-del should be made to work.
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Raul Miller wrote:
David A. van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even ctrl-alt-del doesn't work in XFree86.
ctrl-alt-del should be made to work.
Um, please, NO!
I've several times been very glad ctrl-alt-del did not work in X. You see,
my main server is often in X, another computer here
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 03:02:32PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Raul Miller wrote:
David A. van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even ctrl-alt-del doesn't work in XFree86.
ctrl-alt-del should be made to work.
Um, please, NO!
I've several times been very glad ctrl-alt-del did not work
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Raul Miller wrote:
David A. van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even ctrl-alt-del doesn't work in XFree86.
ctrl-alt-del should be made to work.
Um, please, NO!
I've several times been very glad ctrl-alt-del did not work in X. You see,
my main
Previously Branden Robinson wrote:
Isn't that what I just suggested?
Uhh...
(scratching head aimlessly)
I must be getting blind.. You're right of course. It's just that I didn't
notice the name of the program in your mail, just the URL.
Wichert.
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Branden == Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Branden One presumes that will stop very soon now. Both GTK+ and
Branden the GIMP are very, very close to a 1.0 release. For the
Branden GTK+, one can assume that the library interface will be
Branden stable for a while.
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Frederic Peters wrote:
background where you type your login/password have to be in
only one color, no pixmap. Except that fact, I think a login
screen with only xdm (+xloadimage) can be really cool. I am ok
to make a great login screen. For graphics, I am not the man.
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Frederic Peters wrote:
background where you type your login/password have to be in
only one color, no pixmap. Except that fact, I think a login
screen with only xdm (+xloadimage) can be really cool. I am ok
to make a
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 02:09:43AM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote:
Some choices here are:
1) A modified version of xdm-external+gtkgreet (from the web site
mentioned earlier in this thread.
[...]
They both would be easy, but with the first option I would be
concerned by the rapidly changing
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 01:44:22AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
One presumes that will stop very soon now. Both GTK+ and the GIMP are
very, very close to a 1.0 release. For the GTK+, one can assume that the
library interface will be stable for a while.
Like I said, this is probably a
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They both would be easy, but with the first option I would be
concerned by the rapidly changing state of the gtk libraries. (Red
Hat is basing some gui apps on gtk, so users are unable to install
newer versions of the gtk libraries without breaking these
Previously Branden Robinson wrote:
Someone to follow the lead set at http://tr.ml.org/~tom/software/xdm/
and create a Debian XDM login screen featuring Mr. Blue-Eye or something.
Perhaps we could use XDM-External for this? It allows you to use another
program instead of the default login
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 01:40:57PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Branden Robinson wrote:
Someone to follow the lead set at http://tr.ml.org/~tom/software/xdm/
and create a Debian XDM login screen featuring Mr. Blue-Eye or something.
Perhaps we could use XDM-External for this?
Wanted:
Someone to follow the lead set at http://tr.ml.org/~tom/software/xdm/
and create a Debian XDM login screen featuring Mr. Blue-Eye or something.
This would be great to have for 2.0, but that's probably not realistic, so
it would probably go in 2.1.
--
G. Branden Robinson
Hi.
Wanted:
Someone to follow the lead set at http://tr.ml.org/~tom/software/xdm/
and create a Debian XDM login screen featuring Mr. Blue-Eye or something.
This would be great to have for 2.0, but that's probably not realistic, so
it would probably go in 2.1.
I just go to this url and I
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