Making XDM look good

atmel · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 8:01 am Post subject: screenshot

what do you guys use to take a screenshot of the xdm screen?

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woolsherpahat · Guru Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 347

Sweet, I did some work on mine, needs a little more tweaking and I'm thinking of using xmms instead of ncmpc since xlogin seems to grab all keystrokes.

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I recently found out that in order to change the border colour of xclock, use -bd 'rgb:xx/xx/xx', replacing the x's with hex values. The same might work for other programs as well.

jack_mort · Apprentice Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 167

I asked in the french forum but nobody answered me... so I ask it here : why my xclock doesn't display date with my locale (e.g. I've english names for days and months) ?? If anybody has a little bit of a beginning of an answer...

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jack_mort · Apprentice Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 167

Yep, everything is working fine with my locale, except xclock and pypanel... Could there a variable needed when compiling ?

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Here it is :

ksadza · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:31 pm Post subject:

Since I'm using your XDM config, wich is awsome btw, fbsetbg -l doesn't seem to work in the .fluxbox/startup anymore...

I get this error:
fbsetbg: No previous wallpaper recorded for display :0

however, when I have set my wallpaper by hand,
and after that I open up an aterm and I run "fbsetbg -l" it works fine.

Any ideas on this?
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mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

Is there anyway to include a sessions dropdown in xdm? I currently use KDM and use it to switch between desktop environments often.

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ksadza: Odd. Try putting it in ~/.xsession instead and see if that works.

mikegpitt: That could be done with proper Python, C or etc coding that allows you to click to choose a new session with the mouse and then it overwrites the old line in ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc depending on which exists. I have the knowhow to do this in Python so I might go ahead and code it soon.

ksadza · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:37 am Post subject:

thnx

I already solved the issue by chaning "fbsetbg -l" to "DISPLAY=:0.0 fbsetbg -l"
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Pithlit · l33t Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 887 Location: fuhen

I'll just come out of the closet now and ask: Did anyone figure a way to make the login box transparent? How about using a reboot_button.png for reboot?

oxEz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 115

That's pretty dude! I don't have to close my eyes when xdm starts now :wink:

befortin · Apprentice Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 193

I have a problem with the background.

The .png loads fine when I'm logged on X using the command "/usr/bin/xsetbg -fork /etc/X11/xdm/pixmaps/wallpaper.png", but if I put the same command in the Xsetup_0 file, it doesn't work... Any idea??

jurrie · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:33 pm Post subject:

hmm, is it possible to get the background thingy to work with twinview? It only shows up on my left screen, even thoug I use the tile option.

And is there some way to use hex color codes for xdm? I'd like to use the background color on the wallpaper I want to use, but the color is quite hexie.

suineg · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:44 am Post subject:

great work man! I have a question about xsetbg though, when xdm starts, it takes a second after the login box appears before the background is applied, is this a slowness in xsetbg?

I am probably just being too picky

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just curious if there was something I could do about this.

suineg · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:31 am Post subject:

jurrie:
I have a dual monitor setup as well, for me, I use a dual monitor wallpaper, and xsetbg seems to automatically stretch it across both displays.

ithika · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 23 Location: Edinburgh, UK

I can't really help with making the login box transparent but if you want to remove unnecessary borders around it, try this:

jakamaka · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:44 pm Post subject:

Very nice config Pwnz3r .

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