Well this bug is 6 year old, so I don't know if anyone still cares, anyway I have a simple proposal: Use xmessage to display the required information.
The attached patch modify the scripts used by xdm in order to do so. However I don't think it can be integrated as such, mainly because it uses xmessage, killall and lsb_release without checking if the corresponding command exist. Also one might want to tweek the look of the xmessage window using some xresource file. More information on the used techniques are available from the gentoo wiki [1]. 1: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/XDM/Customization -- Julien Viard de Galbert <jul...@vdg.blogsite.org> http://silicone.homelinux.org/ <jul...@silicone.homelinux.org>
diff -rau orig//etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup new//etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup --- orig//etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup 2010-11-03 13:42:43.000000000 +0100 +++ new//etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup 2010-11-03 13:44:27.000000000 +0100 @@ -3,3 +3,5 @@ # This script is run as root before showing login widget. #xsetroot -solid rgb:8/8/8 + +xmessage -button '' -geometry +0+0 'xdm - '`lsb_release -ds`& diff -rau orig//etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup new//etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup --- orig//etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup 2010-11-03 13:43:23.000000000 +0100 +++ new//etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup 2010-11-03 13:45:10.000000000 +0100 @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ # This script is run as root after the user logs in. If this script exits with # a return code other than 0, the user's session will not be started. +#cleanup +killall xmessage + if [ -e /etc/nologin ]; then # always display the nologin message, if possible if [ -s /etc/nologin ] && which xmessage > /dev/null 2>&1; then
