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From: arnulf@inf.fu-berlin.de (Arnulf Guenther)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Different X Window Managers
Date: 04 Sep 1995 10:49:35 GMT
Organization: Informatik, Freie Universitaet Berlin
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In-reply-to: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of 4 Sep 1995 02:02:47 GMT
>>>>> "Jordan" == Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
Jordan> pi@bridge.bloomington.in.us (Ray Gilbert) wrote:
>>> yeah, well, I'm still waiting for someone to give me a "demo
>>> user" for the CD which has all this stuff already set up.. :)
>> It's already in the port! :-) The "demo user" fvwmrc is in
>> X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/system.fvwmrc I used it as my template to
>> make my own .fvwmrc...
Jordan> Sorry, I was actually referring to an older request of
Jordan> mine for something a lot more comprehensive than this.
Jordan> The `user' would also have to have an intelligent .login
Jordan> file that went and added the requisite packages first if
Jordan> they were not already loaded. I'd also want it to start
Jordan> far more than fvwm - a proper demo wants more running than
Jordan> that! :) -- Jordan
In the same vain: I've set up my system to launch XDM on ttyv7.
Works pretty. Some twiddling with the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm
made a nice entryway so to speak :). But, I've got one problem: My
.login wont be read. Instead I have to change my .xsession to do almost
exactly the same job as my .login. Does anybody has a better solution
than that.
It wonder if one can change the login window of XDM. For instance one
could display a logo (Chuck comes to mind). Or start fvwm and use
FvwmBanner? Have to try that..
-Arnulf