From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 11 08:34:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA24299 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 08:34:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA24286 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 08:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA26791; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:57:04 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199710111357.OAA26791@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: dkelly@hiwaay.net cc: Douglas Carmichael , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: xdm opening sequence [was Here's the start of a FreeBSD rock 'n roll anthem] In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Oct 1997 19:55:43 CDT." <199710080055.TAA05357@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:57:04 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > What do you think? (Anyone have any original ideas?) > > > > Deep Purple > > Machine Head > > [snip] > > > Smoke on the water, fire in the sky > > Very good! Reminds me of the jpeg of Chuck on a rock with a sunbeam > breaking thru a cloudy sky that came from someone in the Japanese > FreeBSD group. I don't know where to download that picutre anymore > as the URL I used quickly disappeared. But the one I sometimes use > for an X background was "daemon0-HQ-1024x768.jpg" > > Animate the picture above. Record you lyrics. Combine. Send to MTV. I got that picture from www.freebsd.org recently - can't remember exactly where. It's an excelent opening X screen: dev:~ $ cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 #!/bin/sh # $XConsortium: Xsetup_0,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:31 gildea Exp $ xv -root /usr/local/shared/mm/pic/FreeBSD/daemon1.jpg -quit xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail dev:~ $ fgrep xlogin /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources | fgrep geom xlogin*geometry: -30+160 I haven't looked into what other program besides xv will do this, but wouldn't this be a good thing to include as standard ? > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....