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In article <1992Dec21.113550.3620@fokus.gmd.de> mph@percival.fokus.gmd.de  
(Michael Hoeft) writes:
> Yet another login image....
> 
> For those who like fantasy images I have downloaded a fantasy style NeXT  
> login image to sonata.cc.purdue.edu (128.210.15.30). It's placed in
> /pub/next/submissions and the filename is fantasy.login.tiff.Z (570 kB).
> 
> It's a compressed 24 bit tiff, it's also nice on 12 bit displays, but I  
> don't like it on 2 bit displays.
> 

Remind me how to replace the system login image with new ones. (NS 3.0)

In article <1992Dec21.224618.13182@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes:

>Remind me how to replace the system login image with new ones. (NS 3.0)

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

Then put your new tiff in its place:

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

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
restarts the Window Server, bringing up the new login panel.
Woe to you if you've misspelled the name nextlogin.tiff, so
be careful.  

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.  

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.

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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.

-- 
[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]
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