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Date: Sun 04-Feb-1990 21:44:15 From: Unknown Subject: Re: changing login panel In article <42814@lanl.gov> jpm@lanl.gov (James P Mcgee) writes: >Want to have some fun with your login panel? Just login as >root, browse to /usr/lib/NextStep, then double click on >nextlogin.tiff. Edit to your hearts content. Save. It's a very bad idea, IMHO, to change vendor-supplied files when it's unnecessary. Try copying nextlogin.tiff and doing dwrite loginwindow ImageFile /your/file/name (logged in as or su'ed to root) The alternate file will take effect the next time loginwindow loads (i.e. after typing "exit" or "console" or rebooting). It does not have to be in /usr/lib/NextStep either, so you can put it someplace that normally gets backed up. Other than keeping the same size and fields for username/password, you can do pretty much what you want with the pixels. If you've also used dwrite loginwindow HostName localhost to display the hostname on top, there will be fairly obvious additional constraints. We have two files we use in preference to NeXT's available for anonymous FTP from sutro.sfsu.edu if you'd like to look at them: gatorlogin.tiff SFSU mascot (scanned image) sfsulogo.tiff Official SFSU logo (by hand) -=EPS=- >From: jpm@lanl.gov (James P Mcgee)
Date: Sun 04-Feb-1990 18:19:25 From: Unknown Subject: changing login panel Want to have some fun with your login panel? Just login as root, browse to /usr/lib/NextStep, then double click on nextlogin.tiff. Edit to your hearts content. Save. Reboot. 1. Make sure you save a copy of the original nextlogin.tiff. 2. It probably wouldn't work to move the two white typein areas. 3. Don't blame me if your system manager/boss/users get ticked off at you. 4. I tried copying the file to /usr/local/lib/NextStep, but that didn't work. Please send me some interesting panels. Pat McGee, jpm@lanl.gov >From: dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. Ly)
Date: Sun 04-Feb-1990 19:42:21 From: Unknown Subject: Re: changing login panel In article <42814@lanl.gov> jpm@lanl.gov (James P Mcgee) writes: > >Want to have some fun with your login panel? Just login as >root, browse to /usr/lib/NextStep, then double click on >nextlogin.tiff. Edit to your hearts content. Save. Reboot. Or, instead of rebooting, just restart the Window Server by typing "exit" in the "Name:" field of the login window. Eric Ly CSLI, Stanford University >From: hue@netcom.UUCP (Jonathan Hue)
Date: Sun 04-Feb-1990 20:55:09 From: Unknown Subject: Re: changing login panel In article <42814@lanl.gov> jpm@lanl.gov (James P Mcgee) writes: > >Want to have some fun with your login panel? Just login as >root, browse to /usr/lib/NextStep, then double click on >nextlogin.tiff. Edit to your hearts content. Save. Reboot. There is no need to reboot. Just type exit and hit return twice instead of typing in your username and password. -Jonathan >From: lacsap@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais)
Date: Sun 05-Feb-1990 00:09:28 From: Unknown Subject: Re: changing login panel You do not want to edit the default login panel nextlogin.tiff, but rather you want to create your own login panel and as root do a dwrite loginwindow ImageFile mylogin.tiff The other alternative is to add it to /etc/ttys, but doing this will cause a bug to show up in that the person loggin into console will never appear in /etc/utmp... In .8 I replaced the login panel, then someone at NeXT figured out that people would do this, so now there is an easy facility to do this. The tiff files can be 4bit per pel, the NeXT will happily half tone it. The only thing to be sensitive of is that loginwindow will put in white stripes for the password and username... This is all documented online (I forget where) pasc
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