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Re: fantasy style login image

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From: Michael Glenn
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:24
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In article <1992Dec23.032924.9696@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu  
(Jess Anderson) 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.
> 

Aside from needing to do this from root, be sure to restart the  
loginwindow.app, which as someone informed me by email can be done most  
easily by putting "exit" as the username, and a blank password.  Of  
course, rebooting the whole machine will work too, I guess. :)

Michael
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