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Re: Background and title-bar
- Subject: Re: Background and title-bar
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 11:38:26 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: Cygwin-XFree <cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com>
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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