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Blue Background with XDM

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Thu Nov 7 15:07:01 1996

Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 14:19:45 -0500
From: ray@fred.net (Ray Curtis)
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Try putting something like:

xsetroot -solid midnightblue

or whatever color or background you'd like in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0.

Hope that helps,


Chris Nystrom writes:
 > 
 > Installed RedHat 4.0 across the net via ftp: no problems. Pretty nifty.
 > 
 > Well one: my Trident card is not supported, but the good news is that it
 > is in XFree86 3.2 so I will need to install that. I did get it working
 > with the VGA16 so all is not a loss.
 > 
 > A couple questions:
 > 
 > How do I change the color of the background of the xdm login? The gray is
 > too plain looking. I looked in my O'Rielly X Admin book but did not see
 > anything.
 > 
 > Also how do I configure and start up the Appletalk networking?
 > 
 > Thanks for any pointers.

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