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jurrie
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 Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Yay, got it to work now, exactly the way I wanted it n_n (except the border around xclock.. any way to get rid of it?)
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| jurrie wrote: | Yay, got it to work now, exactly the way I wanted it n_n (except the border around xclock.. any way to get rid of it?)
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Yeah, the '-bd <colour>' flag is how you set a border colour in xclock. It should work in other apps as well. Just use `appName --help` to see if it has it.  |
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jurrie
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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doh o_O I only read the man page and it didn't mention the -bd
thanks XD |
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hicksboson
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| mikegpitt wrote: | | Is there anyway to include a sessions dropdown in xdm? I currently use KDM and use it to switch between desktop environments often. |
I made a session-choser with xdialog, a gtk+1.x version of dialog. So you should first install this to use my script:
Here is the script that displays the session chooser (with radio buttons)
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#!/bin/bash
## Set the File that stores the last Session
LastSession="/etc/X11/xdm/scripts/last_session"
## Get the last Session if present, otherwise try to get default Session from /etc/rc.conf
[ -f $LastSession ] && source $LastSession
if [ -n "${XSESSION}" ]; then
DialogSessions=" ${XSESSION} $(echo "Last_(${XSESSION})") on"
else
[ -f /etc/rc.conf ] && source /etc/rc.conf
if [ -n "${XSESSION}" ]; then
DialogSessions=" ${XSESSION} $(echo "Last_(${XSESSION})") on"
fi
fi
## Get all available Session from /etc/X11/Sessions
for file in $(ls /etc/X11/Sessions/)
do
DialogSessions="${DialogSessions} $file $file off"
done
## The Dialog itself
ChosenSession=$(/usr/bin/Xdialog --stdout --no-tags --radiolist "Select a Session:" 0 0 0 \
$(echo "${DialogSessions}"))
## Write chosen Session to File
if [ -n "${ChosenSession}" ]; then
echo "XSESSION=\"${ChosenSession}\"" > $LastSession
fi
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You can put this for example in /etc/X11/xdm/scripst/session-chooser.
I load this script with a panel of three buttons for halt, reboot and the Session chooser (/etc/X11/xdm/scripts/buttons)
| Code: | #!/bin/sh
# xmessage returns the number of the button plus 100 (so 101 for the first 102 for second ...)
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage -geometry +0-0 -buttons halt,reboot,Session "$@" "" ""
case "$?" in
101)
/sbin/halt
;;
102)
/sbin/reboot
;;
103)
/etc/X11/xdm/scripts/session_chooser
exec "$0"
;;
esac
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To show the buttons in lower left corner of the screen add the followin line to your /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
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/etc/X11/xdm/scripts/buttons &
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and the following at the Start of /etc/X11/chooser.sh (to get the chosen session startet)
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(...)
# If $XSESSION is "", source first /etc/conf.d/basic, and then /etc/rc.conf
if [ -z "${XSESSION}" ]
then
[ -f /etc/conf.d/basic ] && source /etc/conf.d/basic
[ -f /etc/rc.conf ] && source /etc/rc.conf
## This is the line you've got to add
[ -f /etc/X11/xdm/scripts/last_session ] && source /etc/X11/xdm/scripts/
last_session
fi
(...)
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You can change the appearance of the buttons in /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources with Xmessage*some_option for example to fit it whith Pwnz3r's theme add to Xresources
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! Buttons Configuration
Xmessage*message.scrollVertical: auto
Xmessage*message.scrollHorizontal: never
Xmessage*Command.highlightThickness: 2
Xmessage*Command.internalWidth: 8
Xmessage*Command.internalHeight: 8
Xmessage*Command.shapeStyle: rectangle
Xmessage*Command.font: -*-bitstream vera sans-bold-r-*--20-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
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And at last to get rid of buttons, when you enter a session Add the following line to your /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
| Code: | | /bin/killall xmessage |
Ok, that was a lot of stuff, but it's realy nice and usefull and I hope it help to "downgrade" from gdm/kdm (for those who want)
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VoVaN
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:04 am Post subject: |
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...my 2 cents
picture: http://vovan.homelinux.org/files/screenshots/xdm.png
config: http://vovan.homelinux.org/files/xdm/
Some tips:
-if you'd like to have you favorite mouse pointer instead black cross put this in your Xsetup_0
| Code: | | /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr |
-if you don't like the default gray background during X startup, modify you Xservers as bellow:
| Code: | | :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -br |
(the important is -br, which changes background to black) |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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VoVaN: You know, it was your post about this from 6 or so months ago that got me into the whole configuration of XDM. People did not like your design tastes as much though, so it kind of threw them off. 
Also, I plan on making an alternative to the session chooser with Python using GTK2. I will get on that sometime when I get home. |
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suineg
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:34 am Post subject: |
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Vovan, how did you get your directory listing to look like that, is that apache?
thanks for the config options...great stuff |
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mikegpitt
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:28 am Post subject: |
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hicksboson,
Thanks for the scripts! I've had no time recently but I think I'll try them out soon. |
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ares
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hicksboson
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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To kill all those apps you startet with xdm (like xclock, xsetbg ...) at once you can add this line to your /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
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/usr/X11R6/bin/xwininfo -root -children | /bin/grep ' 0x' | /bin/cut -d' ' -f6 | /usr/bin/xargs -n1 /usr/X11R6/bin/xkill -id
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With this you don't have to kill each app seperatly, so you can comment out all this "killall /some/prog" lines in your GiveConsole.
This is nothing for you, if want to keep anything running after you logged in. |
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luna80
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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very good tips!!
i'm trying to change the font of the login box but any different font from -*-snap-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* work for me.
can somebody tell me why? |
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LucaSpiller
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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I like those scripts hicksboson but I have a couple of problems:
If I add -bg white it reveals a strange box thingy above the buttons, I want to make the whole button set really small but this ends up covering them.  So is there a way to remove it?
Also is there a way to change the theme on your chooser script?
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Farkenell
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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doesn't .bashrc run everytime you start a terminal?
so you'd have it run startx everytime you open up *term? |
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ares
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G3n2
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can anyone tell me how to change the font ?
there's like a strange line with *--snap etc. is there any docu on how i might see all the fonts i have and how to add them correctly ?
because i want the artwiz-anorexia font , but i have no idea how to add it
any help is appreciated , thx
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Oxyron
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| G3n2, xfontsel can be used to generate font lines. |
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G3n2
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Oxyron wrote: | | G3n2, xfontsel can be used to generate font lines. |
i found that out , but artwiz doesnt seem to be in the selection :S
it should be in the family box i guess , but it isnt ?
any ideas ?
i've emerged artwiz-fonts and artwiz-aleczapka-en |
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ares
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G3n2
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| ares wrote: | | xlsfonts '*artwiz*' |
pattern artwiz unmatched |
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ares
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G3n2
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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did that
but still not working
any idea's ? |
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G3n2
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| re-emerged artwiz-fonts , restarted the whole box just for fun , did an rc-update add xfs default for the font server , started the font server , it DOES read artwiz dir , but xfontsel AND xfontselector dont show the fonts , im stuck here . any idea's ? |
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luna80
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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for me work only font that look like this:
-<series>-<font_name>-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
for example: -misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
if you have problems with fonts try to put a font like the above example. |
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djpharoah
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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@G3n2
add the paths to the font u want to use in ur xorg.conf file
that way seems to automatically work for me
hope this helps |
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psyqil
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:32 am Post subject: |
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| NME wrote: | | can i get rid of the black borders around the term though? |
This hasn't been answered yet, has it? I use to let these lines disappear, you probably would want them white... |
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