David Purton wrote: > > > I installed Debian without any difficulties but I'm not amused with the > > grey loginscreen from XDM. Someone told me to change this using xbanner > > but that didn't satisfy me. Another user pointed me to some backgrounds > > for XDM at http://x.themes.org . I took a nice Debian background ( > > http://x.themes.org/php/pic.phtml?src=resources/xdm.969685173.jpg ) but > > don't know how I can show it at the XDM-startup/login. How do I do this? > > Add the following line to /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0: > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xv -root -maxpect -rmode 5 -quit image.jpg
xv is not free software. I use xli without problems instead, although from gdm, but I suppose it does not make any difference. /usr/bin/X11/xli -onroot image.jpg Diego Biurrun
