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Re: Background and title-bar


On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Rasjid wrote:

> Is it possible to:
> 
> 1.  Set the background when running XWin.exe -screen 0 1024x768x16
> -query <some.ip.address>
> so that the XDM provided prompt sits over something other than the
> default black and white background?
> 
> 2.  Change the titlebar (to include the ip address / name of the machine
> being connected to)?
> 
in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup you can put commands to be executed before the xdm 
login window appears. SuSE Win^WLinux e.g. has created a small tool which
prints the hostname of the loginserver above the loginwindow. The source
for this tool can be found at 
<ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/suse/7.2/suse/zq1/xdmbgrd.spm>

bye
	ago
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