Not a WM question, but general/xdm question ;)

[mastersibn]

I've got ?dm working properly now, (kdm is default for me http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif) but I have a pretty simple question: How do I set the root window for the login prompt? It's that ugly b&w weaved pattern now.

I just (a few days ago) switched from booting to CLI to X, and had to manually create all my custom xdm settings in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/* and I'm not sure where/how to insert my `xsetroot` command to pick a background for it. anybody know?

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[Sterling]

/etc/X11/Xsession might be a good place to start... The header at the top of mine refers to it as a global Xsession file.

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[mastersibn]

thanks. it didn't exist, so i created and chmod'ed it 755. It contained one line, so please correct me if I'm wrong:
xsetroot -bg #b4c2d5

And it didn't work. I'll keep looking around, but I'm starting to get tired of that ugly crosshatch pattern http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[NGene]

Try xsetroot -solid "#b4c2d5"

[dharmabum]

Doesn't KDM use its own settings for the login background? You should be able to log in as root and change all the settings for the login in the control center.

[mastersibn]

Originally posted by dharmabum:
Doesn't KDM use its own settings for the login background? You should be able to log in as root and change all the settings for the login in the control center.

Umm... not AFAIK. I fired up kcontrol just to check, and although it might be in kdm 2.0, it's not in whatever shipped with slack. Yeah, I installed Kde2 once, but I futzed it up and reverted. I have yet to download it again. IIRC, kdm uses the same files that xdm and gdm does, and in the same format. `man xdm` tells me that there is no default Xresources file, and that IT could change the bg for xdm, so I followed the directions and added one. It was a simple shell script (which when run at any time by command line works properly) and it is world-execute. Nothing. Still looking, though, for other things to try out. Maybe I'll try gdm, or upgrade Kde again. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/cool.gif


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