Graphical login

[Bob Snyder]

Kristoffer wrote:

>On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:04:22 +0200, Matt Savigear <mcs_xfce at savigear.com>  
>wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 08:57 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
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>>>I have a suspicion this may be a dumb question, but I've not managed to
>>>find the answer I'm looking for yet - if that makes any sense!
>>>
>>>I'm looking to experimentally switch to a graphical login prompt instead
>>>of using startxfce4 every time I power on.
>>>      
>>>
>>I'm pretty sure Xfce does not have its own login manager yet.
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>>You should already have xdm as I _think_ it comes with X. It's not
>>pretty, but it's graphical.
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>supposedly, you can configure xdm to be pretty judging from some screenshot
>i've seen on the web, don't take my word for it though... maybe it was  
>hacked
>or something -- you might wanna try google image search...
>

Yes, xdm is configurable with images and text and fonts etc. The one 
thing you can't get (to my knowledge) is menus to select sessions or 
different desktops. But I only use Xfce, so no loss!

Here's an article on how to customize xdm, and a link to the author's 
project, Xbanner (can't say much for his taste though :-) The link in 
the article is a bit out of date:

    http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1357

    http://www.hijinks.com/~spade/linux/XBanner/ 
<http://www.hijinks.com/%7Espade/linux/XBanner/>

Bob S.