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Re: Login Prompt, burining my screen...

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From: Jess Anderson
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:27
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In article <1992Dec16.220330.26559@athena.mit.edu>
hbriceno@figment.mit.edu (Hector Briceno) writes:

>Hello, Is there anyway to make the login prompt move around the screen
>so that it will not burn the screen.  I know you can dim the screen
>but it is not what I want

Dimming the screen is worth doing, however.  If you're
running 3.0, you can (as root) do

dwrite loginwindow MoveWhenIdle YES

The login tiff then bounces around the screen in BackSpace
fashion.

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Subject: Re: Login Prompt, burining my screen...
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