On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:31:35PM -0500, Justin Georgeson wrote:
| I always forget to back this up when I upgrade my system. But I have a
| folder a images I like to use as the background for the xdm login
| screen. I also have a perl script that picks one of the files in said
| folder at random, it prints the name of the file with the absolute path.
| In /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0, I have a line that currently reads:
|
| /usr/bin/X11/xv -root -max -quit `random_background.pl`
|
| Instead of the image, I am given that startup spalsh screen that gives
| copyright/about type information about XV. The above line works when I'm
| already in X, just not for xdm. I have also tried using xsetbg, that
| gives the lovely grey grid (X without a server). Any hints.
You get the splash screen when you don't give it anything else to display.
It sounds like random_background.pl isn't outputting anything -
perhaps it's not in your path at that point? Try putting the full
path of it in there and it'll probably work ...
/usr/bin/X11/xv -root -max -quit `/usr/local/bin/random_background.pl`
You might (or might not) see any errors that are printed in your xdm
log. On my box, it's /var/log/xdm-error.log, but you may also find it
in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm. (The actual location is set up in
xdm-config which is normally in that directory as well.)
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