graphical login at boot time

[Shawn Rutledge]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:00:30PM -0400, lynn.newton@cox.net wrote:
> Normally I'd just shrug it off, but ironically one of
> the primary reasons I went to the trouble of installing
> this virtual machine was so I could get a screen shot
> of the graphical login screen by running the
> screenshooter applet from my "real" machine and
> snagging a window shot of the virtual machine sitting
> at the login. Grrr.
>
> Thoughts appreciated.

I bet you could still do that using just your primary real machine; in
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 you can startup other programs at the same time xdm
starts, for example I like to run xscreensaver and gkrellm and xbanner. You
could probably use a command-line screenshot program there (xwd or some
such); or maybe run xv, and then when you are ready to do a screenshot
select "Grab", "Hide XV Windows" and then lasso the whole screen with the
middle button.

Heh, too bad XFree doesn't have a feature so that no matter who you are
logged in as or what you are running on your X session, you can hit
shift-printscreen and it dumps a screenshot to a file with
auto-incrementing filename in /tmp.  Then again maybe somebody wrote a
program like that.

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