RE: [aclug-L] Check it out

["John Alexander" <john.alexander@xxxxxxx>]

Ah... What we have here is a failure to communicate... XDM, at least on my Debian release (which is down right now, thanks to a pooched SCSI controller, but that's another post) allows you to have a graphical login screen, as well as providing that login service over the network when using thin client type systems. AIX probably calls it something else. Anyway, I found the author's page: http://is.rice.edu/~shel/xv-3.10a/availability.html so you might try to go there and ask him if XV is compatible with AIX. Or, you could get the source and see if it compiles, which I would highly doubt.

 

JA

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of phrostie
Sent: Monday, October 19, 1998 12:42 AM
To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [aclug-L] Check it out

i'm on a AIX-RS/6000 box at work.
i'm new to aix and i'm trying to find a way to apply a root window image"wall paper"
the normal utilities xv, xloadimage can not be found.
aix has a graphical selection for a tiled backgroud but i want more.  i'm spoiled.
i don't know what the command is that it is useing, and the only graphic tools i can find are xsetroot(boreing), and i thought the other was xdm.  maybe i have it wrong.
any way i was able to do a screen capture with it and then redisplay it.
but i want it under my desktop not on top of it.

am i making sence or am i just confused?

John Alexander wrote:

 Do you mean that you want the system to come up to an XDM login prompt, or you want a background for the login prompt?

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of phrostie
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 1998 7:59 PM
To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [aclug-L] Check it out

I love linux too, but i don't think my boss would think too highly of that for a wall paper.
then again maybe he would,     Oouch!

i know how to create a *.xdm, my question is can i use xdm to set a root window?

phrostie
 

John Alexander wrote:

Kinda thinkin' about using some of these for me XDM background

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~conradp/linux/cartoons/

John Alexander
MCI/Worldcom LAN Administrator
Wichita TeleMarketing Center
VNET 780-1024, Local 631-1024

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