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Re: fantasy style login image

#4102
From: Robert Frank
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:16
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In article <1992Dec23.032924.9696@macc.wisc.edu>  writes:
> In article <1h7gl4INNeeo@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:
> 
> ># dwrite loginwindow ImageFile fullPathForNewLoginPanelTiff
> 
> >Then restart the window server as Jess described.
> 
> Naturally I tried that.  Doesn't work, at least not for me.
> I'd like confirmation that it *does* work under 3.0, for
> someone.  Standard-issue 3.0, off the CD-ROM.  Needless to
> say, I've checked *very* carefully that the dwrite was set
> as Art (and others) have mentioned.
> 
> -- 
> [Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of  
Wisconsin]
> [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best,  
UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson]
> [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone  
608/262-5888]
> [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values  
<---------]

It DOES work, you have to do this as root!
Robert
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From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
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