From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 18 13:14:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72D5714F1B for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:14:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 22610 invoked by uid 0); 18 Apr 1999 20:11:44 -0000 Received: from ens317-31.ece.utexas.edu (HELO ens317-31) (146.6.101.81) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 18 Apr 1999 20:11:44 -0000 X-Sender: kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:11:12 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Kevin Weiss Subject: xdm and painting the root window Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <19990418201414.72D5714F1B@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I now have xdm working, not I'm just wondering how to customize it. I want to change the background login screen (root window). I checked previous mailing list archives, and found references to using "xsetroot". I tried "xsetroot -bitmap ....", but xdm-errors reported "bad bitmap file format", or something like that. I also saw reference to using "xv" to do this. However, it wasn't clear (to me) how to use "xv" with graphical file. Does the graphical file have to be in a certain format (*.bmp, *.jpg, *.gif)? In my case, it's a *.gif file. Any recommendations? Suggestions? Thanks in advance. Kevin Weiss kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message