Thanks for the suggestion. I forgot to mention that I'm not using the KDE enviornment (yet). I want to gain a better understanding of the basic X Window systems before moving on to a more spophisticated environment like KDE. And my basic FVWM2 managed X environment works fine, it's just this login box (and how to customize it) that is bugging me and I don't want to give up until I have it in my control :) Art Editor Haymarket Publishing Telephone +44 20 8267 4622 Fax +44 20 8267 4697 174 Hammersmith Rd London W6 7JP United Kingdom
---------- From: Mark Hounschell Reply To: dmarkh@cfl.rr.com Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 11:42 To: James McCreery Cc: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: Re: [SLE] XDM help for beginner
James McCreery wrote:
I could really use some help here. I would like to customise my XDM
and having read up about it have come to the conclusion that this is done via the /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources file. However, changes I make to this
login script
make no difference at all to my login screen which has a white with black text rectangular login box in the centre (with the heading "X Window System). This black and white login box is what I want to change and I have looked at every file in /etc/X11/xdm but cannot find the script that controls it. As I expected, I can control the background of the login screen via /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup but this black and white rectangular login box remains completely mysterious!
Any help is much appreciated
james.
I would suggest using KDM. It is easily configured via roots control center. "System ; login manager". KDE2.0/KDE2.1 setup is real nice using KDM instead of XDM.
-- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com
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