Making XDM look good

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geniux · Post by **geniux** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:25 pm

philidias wrote:
geniux wrote:Ok, thanks to you all
Here's mine. It's my first, so I guess I'll tune it a bit or perhaps change it totaly sometime. It sure was fun doing it
not bad

Thank you
I'm working on a "new" one at my free times, without the flux logo so it can be used for any session plus some other minor things

Sergejs.Magers · Post by **Sergejs.Magers** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:54 am

I can't get to read your how-to or either see the screenshots because http://pstudios.ath.cx/ is broken for me.

It would be very nice if you (Pwnz3r) could put that how-to on the gentoo forums so that it's always available.

P.S. Or maybe somebody can send me that how-to or configuration please.

NaN · Post by **NaN** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:18 am

I'm afraid the http://pstudios.ath.cx/ link doesn't work for me either. Any chance of putting the howto on the gentoo forums?

Thanks

boroshan · Post by **boroshan** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:36 am

Zeksers wrote:I can't get to read your how-to or either see the screenshots because http://pstudios.ath.cx/ is broken for me.
It would be very nice if you (Pwnz3r) could put that how-to on the gentoo forums so that it's always available.

P.S. Or maybe somebody can send me that how-to or configuration please.

I can post a link to my setup. I tarred it up in response to a request on the FVWM fora. You'll need to supply your own wallpaper, but that's going to phase anyone reading this thread

thaswiftness · Post by **thaswiftness** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 11:49 pm

Yea, I wish the website/how-to was actually accessible still. Or rather I wish I would have saved the original and my own config which both have since been lost

Looks like the last time Pwnz3r was active on this thread was 9 months ago :\ maybe he'll come back someday.

boroshan · Post by **boroshan** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:04 am

thaswiftness wrote:Yea, I wish the website/how-to was actually accessible still. Or rather I wish I would have saved the original and my own config which both have since been lost

Looks like the last time Pwnz3r was active on this thread was 9 months ago :\ maybe he'll come back someday.

Have a look at the XDM Themestuff page. It's the reference I used to write my XDM screen.

thaswiftness · Post by **thaswiftness** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:00 pm

Yep I've read that page. Really, all I needed was to see a working config because I had forgotten what was what. But basically theres Xresources for your fonts/login box placement/etc, Xsetup for running things like setting the background and clocks, etc, and GiveConsole to kill anything you started in Xsetup.

So, after looking at your posted configuration and VoVan's from a few pages back, I got something going that I like.

Simple but enough for me : Click

boroshan · Post by **boroshan** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:00 pm

thaswiftness wrote:Yep I've read that page. Really, all I needed was to see a working config because I had forgotten what was what. But basically theres Xresources for your fonts/login box placement/etc, Xsetup for running things like setting the background and clocks, etc, and GiveConsole to kill anything you started in Xsetup.

Nice

One thing I'd add - GiveConsole isn't the best place to kill apps started by XDM. It works ok for most things, but if you kill XDM with control-R (as I sometimes do) then the progam will remain running, at least if it doesn't depend on X, anyway.

I think I might go back to running xmms for my login music...

hicksboson · Post by **hicksboson** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:15 pm

Love to see this thread is still allive

boroshan wrote:One thing I'd add - GiveConsole isn't the best place to kill apps started by XDM. It works ok for most things, but if you kill XDM with control-R (as I sometimes do) then the progam will remain running, at least if it doesn't depend on X, anyway.

No, the problem is not GiveConsole - this is the only place where these things can go. It is that control-R thing. Take a look at the Xresources file of xdm (/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources). At the top there is the option

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xlogin*login.translations: #override \
            Ctrl<Key>R: abort-display()\n\
            ...

The funktion abort-display is explained in the xdm manpage:

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abort-display
              Terminates the server, disabling it.  This action
              is not accessible in the default configuration.
              There are various reasons to stop xdm on a system console, such as
              when shutting the system down, when using xdmshell,
              to start another type of server, or to generally access the console.
              Sending xdm a SIGHUP will restart the display.  See the section
              Controlling XDM.

Basically this means that control-R exits the X-Server but not xdm. This is needed if you can choose between different X-Servers (normally on different hosts). In this case you run a chooser which let you -surprise- choose the server you want to login. If you did so and change your mind you can type control-R and get back to the chooser to connect to another server.
If you do this with only one local server running, you will exit X - meaning kill it and all X-apps. This includes xdm, but as xdm is not shut down properly, the none-X apps will stay.
There is no function to kill xdm in the supported functions for the *translation resource. The closest ones are abort-session (which will restart the X-Server) and restart-session (which will reset the server and starts a new session). So I think it's generally a good advice to avoid the control-R on a normal desktop system (with only one local server running).
Just stick to

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/etc/init.d/xdm stop

Hope on my next post I have better news ...

Centinul · Post by **Centinul** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:57 pm

Does anybody have a link to the OP XDM howto? I've tried his link and it takes me nowhere. Thanks!

EDIT:::

I'm also having problems with my configuration. I have this annoying white/shaded border around the login prompt and also have a horizontal rule dividing the "Welcome to MACHINE" and the "user/password" section that I would like to get rid of. Also how would I go about putting "user" and "password" on th same line and centering it? Thanks!

vktgz · Post by **vktgz** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:16 am

Here is mine XDM:
Screenshot: http://www.vktgz.homelinux.net/gfx/charger-xdm.png
Files: http://www.vktgz.homelinux.net/file/charger-xdm.zip
(files based on info from this forum, image somewhere from the net)
XDM rulez

mark4gentoo · Post by **mark4gentoo** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:51 pm

Hello,

perhaps you know the problem:
XDM looks quite ugly when it starts. It looks like a computer screen back from the 80s.

Does anyone know wethere there are some nice themes or anything else that would make my xdm look better.
I don't want to use kdm, gdm, or so...

Thanks a lot!

HermanR · Post by **HermanR** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:59 pm

Maybe you could try Qingy? That doesn't use X Windows for login, but allows you to start any console or X session. Or do you only want xdm?

at240 · Post by **at240** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:08 pm

Entrance is pretty light too, but if you really want xdm...

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=272135

(there are quite a few threads on this topic)

kadu · Post by **kadu** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:15 pm

i think kdm is better than xdm

HermanR · Post by **HermanR** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:16 pm

I use kdm too, but if someone really doesn't want kdm or gdm or anything like that...

at240 · Post by **at240** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:28 pm

kadu wrote:i think kdm is better than xdm

HermanR wrote:I use kdm too, but if someone really doesn't want kdm or gdm or anything like that...

oh, you guys with your smoking AMD64 megamachines.... spare a thought for those of us with slow processors, not much RAM, limited disk space... you can't blame us for trying to avoid all those dependencies...

kadu · Post by **kadu** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:41 pm

I found this site about themes in xdm

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http://xdm.house.cx/cgi-bin/xdmwiki.pl?XDM_Themestuff

HermanR · Post by **HermanR** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:28 pm

at240 wrote: oh, you guys with your smoking AMD64 megamachines.... spare a thought for those of us with slow processors, not much RAM, limited disk space... you can't blame us for trying to avoid all those dependencies...

We don't blame you for that, we just feel sorry for you...

Sergejs.Magers · Post by **Sergejs.Magers** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:26 pm

Guess what?
Pwnz3r has got his website up and running. It is know called Daimeria and it has some cool Linux related stuff.
More info here.

Bill Cosby · Post by **Bill Cosby** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:55 pm

Hey everyone,

I tried to make my xdm look good

but somehow I can't set a background picture with feh.

What did I do worng?

My Xsetup_0

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#!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: Xsetup_0,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:17 cpqbld Exp $
/usr/X11R6/bin/feh --bg-center /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/pixmaps/Picture.jpg
/usr/X11R6/bin/xclock -geometry '+0+0' -digital -update 1 -bg white -fg black

The clock works, but not the picture

Thanks in advance

mikegpitt · Post by **mikegpitt** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:55 am

Bill Cosby wrote:I tried to make my xdm look good but somehow I can't set a background picture with feh.

Did you try another app? I personally am using xsetbg:

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/usr/bin/xsetbg -fork -fullscreen -onroot -center /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-bg/xdm-splash.png

arpac · Post by **arpac** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:28 pm

Hi all
I am enable to put xscreensaver (only for the idle mode) with xdm, I've try lots of possibility, long search, but nothing work, the better that I had was:

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xscreensaver: 15:45:20: couldn't grab keyboard!  (AlreadyGrabbed)
xscreensaver: 15:45:24: couldn't grab keyboard!  (AlreadyGrabbed)
xscreensaver: 15:45:24: unable to grab keyboard or mouse!  Blanking aborted.

in the xdm.log
any idea to make it works ?
thx

boroshan · Post by **boroshan** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:35 am

arpac wrote:

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xscreensaver: 15:45:20: couldn't grab keyboard!  (AlreadyGrabbed)
xscreensaver: 15:45:24: couldn't grab keyboard!  (AlreadyGrabbed)
xscreensaver: 15:45:24: unable to grab keyboard or mouse!  Blanking aborted.

in the xdm.log
any idea to make it works ?

It's tricky.

The trouble seems to be that the login widget grabs the keyboard and won't get go. This means, among other things, that if you have a password on the screensaver, you won't be able to get out of it.

I know this because I once tried to use the Matrix screensaver on the root window. For some reason it displayed over the top of the login widget, and I couldn't get rid of it to log in.

I never did get that working. Sorry, I know that's not much help.

mimosinnet · Post by **mimosinnet** » Sat May 17, 2008 1:53 pm

I have changed from kdm to xdm and this thread has been very helpful. Really like xdm!

This is my screenshot, with conky and root-tail running.

Thanks a lot!

Cheers!

Making XDM look good

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Links are broken.

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XDM themes?!?