Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:39:18 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Tracy R. Reed" <> | Subject | Re: GLOAT BLOAT (Was: Boot messages, Ideas for v2.1) |
| |
On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> I really like the idea of a startup animation. Somebody else mentioned this
Hey, that's a neato idea. Linux is not commercial and nobody stands to make any money off of it in most cases, but it should make an effort to be pretty and have some marketing gimmicks that will impressive people. A few simple things can be done to pretty it up. Doing something in lilo is the best way to do it. But I've added some other stuff to my machine to make it prettier when it boots into X because I often show it off to people who I'm embarassed to call my friends because they are lose95 lamers. :) Something like:
/usr/local/bin/xpmroot /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/background2.xpm
in /hdb/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 puts a pretty background behind xdm.
This gives me an idea...perhaps I'll stick a small animation in there as well. I just need to find an unobtrusive mpeg player the user can't screw with that will play the animation automatically.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tracy Reed http://rohan.sdsu.edu/home/treed IRC-Maelcum Check out DALnet! The best IRC network around: http://www.dal.net "She moves in mysterious ways..."
| |