[HOWTO]: Configuring XDM so that it looks nice

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placeholder · Post by **placeholder** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:07 am

I posted about this originally in Gentoo chat, and by request I am posting it in this forum. I have hosted the howto on my website, so just follow the link below.

My XDM Howto

Cheers.

Oh yeah....

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rhill · Post by **rhill** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:47 am

man, always when i think i have everything set how i want and i finally have some free time, you come along with something totally cool to play with. there goes another couple hours.

one question, where (if possible) is the login box font set?

placeholder · Post by **placeholder** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:22 am

dirtyepic wrote:one question, where (if possible) is the login box font set?

That is set in the Xresources file.

gaminggeek · Post by **gaminggeek** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:38 pm

Problem.
When I log in it just starts xdm up again and does not log in :/

ps sorry for posting on an old thread

bludger · Post by **bludger** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:41 pm

This looks interesting - I might give it a try.

Does anyone know how to shutdown, or reboot a system from xdm?

Pithlit · Post by **Pithlit** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:12 pm

I'm having the same problem as gaminggeek and I'd apreciate if someone could help. And on the other note... the shutdown and reboot buttons won't show up for some reason. I think I need to emerge something but I can't figure out what

*edit1* got my buttons... I still can't bring up my WM tho. XDM just loads all over again for some reason.
*edit2* Bad GiveConsole! /me spanks it. It was corrupted so I had to fetch a new one.

gaminggeek · Post by **gaminggeek** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:00 am

there are shutdown and reboot buttons?

Pithlit · Post by **Pithlit** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 11:15 am

Yes... and please ignore the uglyness of it. The guy it's for wanted it that way

gaminggeek · Post by **gaminggeek** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 11:37 am

where do you get the buttons from?

Pithlit · Post by **Pithlit** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:01 pm

My Xsetup:

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#!/bin/sh
# Programs to run with XDM

# Set nice background
/usr/bin/xsetbg -fork /etc/X11/xdm/pixmaps/xpoint1.png

### reboot & halt buttons
pidfile=/var/run/xdmbutton_0.pid
if [ -f $pidfile ]; then
  # Huh? Abnormally terminated?
  rm $pidfile
fi
HOME=/root /usr/bin/wish -name Shutdown <<EOF &
wm geometry . +24+700
tk_setPalette highlightColor blue
button .halt  -background #c6c2c2 -foreground #9f2727 -font snap -text shutdown \
  -command {exec /sbin/shutdown -h now 2>/dev/console >/dev/console}
button .reboot -background #c6c2c2 -foreground #9f2727 -font snap -text \040\040reboot\040\040 \
  -command {exec /sbin/shutdown -r now 2>/dev/console >/dev/console}
pack .reboot -side top
pack .halt -side top
EOF
echo $! >$pidfile
###

# Start xclock
/usr/X11R6/bin/xclock -digital -update 1 &

# Take screencap
# /usr/bin/scrot -d 5 xdmshot.png &

You'll probably want to play around a bit with fonts and colours.

Piper Dawn · Post by **Piper Dawn** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 3:04 pm

While I really appreciate this guide, I'm having a doozy of a time getting the font to work correctly. I've installed artwiz-fonts, and my .conf files (/etc/fonts/local.conf, /etc/X11/xorg.conf) are up-to-date, but it refuses to use the font specified.

Currently I've got:

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xlogin*Font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*--12-*
xlogin*font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-*--12-*

which works, although Helvetica isn't much better than the default font.

Any help?

[HOWTO]: Configuring XDM so that it looks nice

[HOWTO]: Configuring XDM so that it looks nice

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