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- From: kianteck@iastate.edu (?)
- Subject: Re: xv root tile as background for login screen
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <BxBDJ6.7F9@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 15:37:50 GMT
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- In <BxBDJ6.7F9@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> teek@flight.uwaterloo.ca (Prateek Dwivedi) writes:
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- You can write the following command in your startup.tty or startup.x11 file :
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- xv -quit -root ????.gif
- ^^^^^^^^
- or with the directory if not in the main directory
- e.g. ~/gif/????.gif
-
- Albert K.T.Tan
-
-
- >Hi,
-
- >We just got a DEC 5000/240 for our group. We are called the Flight
- >Control Systems Group, so we'd like to have plane like backgrounds for
- >everyone to have.
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- >I have found a few gif files we would like to use, and we view them with
- >xv (which also allows us to use the pictures as backgrounds on our
- >xterminals.
-
- >The problem is that we don't know how to force the picture to be the
- >background for the login screen. Any ideas?
-
- >Thanks,
-
- >--
- >Teek (Prateek Dwivedi) teek@kingcong.uwaterloo.ca
- >Research Assistant pdwivedi@systems.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
- >Flight Control Systems Group (519)885-1211 x5314 Voice
- >University of Waterloo, Canada (519)746-3077 Fax
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