Fw: SETI login screen

["Vipul Mathur" <vipul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pankaj,

Here is the post from Raju you were looking for. :-)

Cheerio!

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Raj Mathur" <raju@xxxxxxx>
To: <linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 7:25 PM
Subject: [linux-delhi] SETI login screen


> I've learned my lesson: people are more interested in getting their
> GDM login screen to show SETI pictures like on my notebook than in the
> pearls of wisdom which drop from my lips.  So here's what I had to do
> in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf:
>
> The greeter section looks like this:
>
> [greeter]
> Browser=0
> DefaultFace=/usr/share/pixmaps/nobody.png
> DefaultLocale=english
>
Exclude=bin,daemon,adm,lp,sync,shutdown,halt,mail,news,uucp,operator,nobody
> Font=-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*
> GlobalFaceDir=/usr/share/faces/
> #Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gdm.xpm
> Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/setiathome.ppm
> LocaleFile=/etc/X11/gdm/locale.alias
> #Logo=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-logo-large.png
> Logo=/usr/share/pixmaps/tux-sgi-top.ppm
> Quiver=0
> SystemMenu=1
> Welcome=Welcome to %n\nUnauthorised access prohibited
>
> /usr/share/pixmaps/setiathome.ppm is the large static SETI logo.
> /usr/share/pixmaps/tux-sgi-top.ppm is the Linux on SGI logo.
>
> Further, my /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default (which is a symlink to
> somewhere) looks like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # Xsetup for Red Hat Linux 6.0
> # Copyright (c) 1999 Red Hat Software, Inc.
>
> pidof -s kdm > /dev/null 2>&1
> if [ $? -eq 0 -a -x /usr/bin/kdmdesktop ]; then
>   /usr/bin/kdmdesktop
> else
>   /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot -solid "#000000"
> #  /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot -solid "#356390"
> fi
>
> # only set the background if the xsri program is installed
> if [ -x /usr/bin/xsri ]; then
>         /usr/X11R6/bin/animate -geometry +850+700       \
>                 /usr/share/pixmaps/SETI/jones_seti.gif &
>     /usr/bin/xsri  -geometry +5+5 -keep-aspect \
>         /usr/share/pixmaps/setiathome.ppm
> #    /usr/bin/xsri  -geometry +5+5 -avoid 300x250 -keep-aspect \
> #       /usr/share/pixmaps/redhat/redhat-transparent.png
> fi
>
> As you can see, the setiathome.ppm logo gets loaded twice... one of
> the loads works :-)
>
> All the SETI logos and animated GIF's are available from
>
>     http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Raju
>
>