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In article <1992Dec22.101601.20122@macc.wisc.edu>
anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

Sure as hell someone will misread my (admittedly a bit
garbled) syntax, do the wrong thing, and then I'll feel
guilty for some small number of microseconds.  Why risk it?

>As root:

>cd /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/English.lproj

>If you've never changed your login panel tiff before, save
>the original (which is just good system administration, eh?):

>mv nextlogin.tiff nextlogin.tiff.orig

You only need to do this once, of course.

>Then put your new tiff in its place:

>cp -p <yourpath/yourimage.tiff> nextlogin.tiff

This is probably better written as:

cp -p yourpath/yourimage.tiff nextlogin.tiff

so somebody doesn't try redirection.

>If English isn't your local language, your *.lproj directory
>will be appropriately different, of course.

>Then log out, and type exit<return> as the login name; that
                  ^on the resulting login panel (the old one, still)
>restarts the Window Server, bringing up the new login panel.

Many people have said you kill the Windowserver by giving
'exit' as the login name and <return> as the password.  This
isn't actually correct; exit<return> does it and there is no
associated password prompt.

>Woe to you if you've misspelled the name nextlogin.tiff, so
>be careful.  

No login panel will appear, which means you will next be
booting in single-user mode, fixing the error, and
continuing the boot.

>Within NeXTstep, logged on as root, you can open
>loginwindow.app with command-O, similarly
><local_language.lproj>, rename the old file, and drag in a
>copy of the new one.  

Renaming it nextlogin.tiff, of course.

>I've been designing a big batch of new login panel tiffs and
>am about to release them to the world (I wasn't sure of the
>world was all that interested), so I've done this a lot
>lately.

It's a funny thing.  I spent really a *lot* of hours in my
various draw programs and in Icon, making these things, some
of which are fairly complex.  After maybe a hundred of them
(75 since pitched out, perhaps), I finally felt a very
simple one would be best, for me.  Since I have my
background set to black, many of the ones I made look best
on that and would not seem as mysterious or grand or
whatever on a grey background.  Oh, that reminds me: they're
all monochrome, as I have no access to color (good thing,
too, because then hundreds, rather than tens, of hours would
have been consumed fiddling with those possibilities.  It
was all therapeutic, I guess.

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