Re: change gdm background

[Wandered Inn <esoteric denali atlnet com>]

simeon wrote:
> 
> hi, thanks for the answer but ... didn't work ...
> 
> there must be a script from the distribution (SuSE 7.0) which changes
> this background after the Defautl scripts is run and so changes in
> Default make no sense because the settings are being changed once again
> anyway ...

Running SuSE 6.4 here, I don't use gdm, but my
/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/Init/Default calls:

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_default

Inside this script is the following line:

background=${XDMDIR}/BackGround.xpm

Check it out, maybe this will work for you.

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