🚀 go-pugleaf

I tried to send this directly to Liam [lee@sqlee.sq.com (Liam R. E.
Quin)] but it bounced back twice.  Sorry for the bandwith loss...

> I am not sure how to get rid of the OpenWindows startup banner if you are
> using xdm, but the normal approach is to insert into .startup.ps
> 	/IncludeDemos? false def % faster startup, no TNT demos
> 	/NoBanner? true def
>  
> You *might* have to surround these like this:
> 	UserDict begin
> 	    /IncludeDemos? false def
> 	    /NoBanner? true def
> 	end
> 	 
> but I don't believe so.  If you are starting xnews with xdm, do use the
> OpenWindows 3 config files and xdm, or you have a security hole -- the
> server runs as root in the MIT setup; unlike X11, xnews can access files
> and run programs...

Actually there might be some confusion here.  There are two banners
involved.  In general one can start xnews with -banner and get the
full screen OW screen (with full screen blue background).  However the
default is -nobanner and one will get the X "weavy" background.
Unfortunately even in this situation one gets the small OW logo on the
middle of the screen.

I wandered through the /usr/openwin/etc/NeWS/{init,paintroot}.ps code
and there does not seem to be a way to get rid of this smaller logo
(which is irritating because only a small farction of it shows up
under the xdm login window...

Oh well, Liam, thanks for your help anyway...

-Miguel


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