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    SubjectRe: 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.

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