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- From: huber@vxcrna.cern.ch (Sepp Huber, CERN -4439,-6712)
- Subject: Re: Decw$loginbackground>XGIF
- Message-ID: <31JUL199210035451@vxcrna.cern.ch>
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- Organization: European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN
- References: <94920730233649.0004570754NA3EM@mcimail.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 09:03:00 GMT
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- In article <94920730233649.0004570754NA3EM@mcimail.com>, HOLDREGE+_MP%A1%PacifiCare@MCIMAIL.COM (HOLDREGE_MP) writes...
- >
- >Does anyone have a utility to display a GIF image in the login background?
- >I have the X11 bipmap working, but now I have a hankering to put a GIF
- >behind WSA1:. 8-)
- >
- >I tried pointing DECW$LOGIN_BACKGROUND to a command procedure which ran XGIF
- >but I got "cannot open display".
- >
- >Anybody done this yet?
- >
- >Matt Holdrege 5156065@mcimail.com holdrege@eisner.decus.org
- >
- One has to define the display explicitly in the decw$login_background procedure
- before running the display program. Unfortunately the system does not pass any
- information about the display to the procedure.
- The easy case is, where You can make the assumption of running on a local
- single-headed workstation:
- SET DISPLAY/CREATE/TRANSPORT=LOCAL/NODE=0
- For non-local stations (like Xterminals), one probably has to look for the
- WSA device owned by the login process.
- I never had a need to deal with it :-)
- -
- Joseph "Sepp" Huber | At present in CERN, phone -4439/-6712
- Max-Planck-Institut Physik | Internet: huber@vxcern.cern.ch
- Munich, Germany | HEPnet: VXCERN::HUBER
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