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[How-To] Add pictures to the visual login screen

fu
From constant traveler [nyc/london/berlin]
Who joined Sept. 29, 2005, 9:39 a.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 22, 2006, 1:03 p.m...

...i bet i'm stuck to something very basic, but i'm quite dizzy right now and i'd appreciate some help...

following Gerhard Lenerz's tips :

Use chkconfig to make sure that visuallogin is set to on and noiconlogin to off . The icons (SGI RGB format, at least 100x100 pixels) can be placed in the following locations:

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/$HOME/.icons/login.icon /usr/lib/faces/$USER /usr/local/lib/faces/$USER

$USER is the loginname of the user, $HOME the home directory.

there was no "faces" directory under /usr/lib/ nor /usr/local/lib so i created 'em and copyied the image file over there:

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o2 1# ls /usr/lib/faces/fu


mad_127_100.rgb


o2 2# ls /usr/local/lib/faces/fu


mad_127_100.rgb


o2 3#

my chkconfig looks like:

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o2 3% chk


Flag                 State


====                 =====




acct                 off


appletalk            off


array                off


audit                off


autoconfig_ipaddress off


autofs               on


automount            off


cesag                off


cluster              off


desktop              on


esp                  off


fcagent              off


fontserver           off


gated                off


grio                 off


grio2                off


ipaliases            off


isdnd                off


ldap                 off


lockd                on


lp                   on


mediad               on


mrouted              off


named                off


nds                  off


neko_sshd            on


network              on


nfs                  on


nfsd                 on


noiconlogin          off


nostickytmp          off


ns_admin             off


ns_fasttrack         off


nsd                  on


pam                  off


pmcd                 off


pmie                 off


privileges           off


proclaim_relayagent  off


proclaim_server      off


proxymngr            off


quickpage            off


rarpd                off


routed               off


rsvpd                off


rtmond               on


rwhod                off


sar                  off


savecore             on


sdpd                 off


sendmail             off


sendmail_cf          off


sesdaemon            off


sgi_apache           on


snetd                off


soundscheme          on


sshd                 off


tfxd                 off


timed                off


timeslave            off


ts                   off


verbose              on


visuallogin          on


vswap                off


webface              off


webface_apache       off


windowsystem         on


xdm                  on


xlv                  off


yp                   off


ypmaster             off


ypserv               off




o2 4% uname -aR


IRIX o2 6.5 6.5.26m 10060437 IP32


o2 5%

..any tips..?

nekonoko
Site Admin
From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 22, 2006, 1:09 p.m...

fu wrote: there was no "faces" directory under /usr/lib/ nor /usr/local/lib so i created 'em and copyied the image file over there:

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o2 1# ls /usr/lib/faces/fu mad_127_100.rgb o2 2# ls /usr/local/lib/faces/fu mad_127_100.rgb o2 3#

You need to rename the image file so it matches your login name, i.e. mv mad_127_100.rgb fu

So it should look like: /usr/local/lib/faces/fu (with fu being the image file itself, not a subdirectory)

Here's an example from my Fuel (I use /usr/lib/faces instead of /usr/local/lib/faces but either location works):

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[Mai:~] neko 7# ls -la /usr/lib/faces


total 80


drwxr-xr-x    2 root     sys            28 Oct  3  2005 ./


drwxr-xr-x   69 root     sys         12288 Sep 19 04:42 ../


-rw-r--r--    1 neko     user        30512 Sep 28  2005 neko


-rw-r--r--    1 neko     user        30512 Oct  3  2005 root




[Mai:~] neko 9# file /usr/lib/faces/neko


/usr/lib/faces/neko:    SGI imagelib image (100 x 100)




[Mai:~] neko 10# file /usr/lib/faces/root


/usr/lib/faces/root:    SGI imagelib image (100 x 100)

'man clogin' for more details.

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fu
From constant traveler [nyc/london/berlin]
Who joined Sept. 29, 2005, 9:39 a.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 22, 2006, 1:40 p.m...

nekonoko wrote: You need to rename the image file so it matches your login name, i.e. mv mad_127_100.rgb fu

So it should look like: /usr/local/lib/faces/fu ( with fu being the image file itself , not a subdirectory)

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[Mai:~] neko 7# ls -la /usr/lib/faces total 80 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 28 Oct 3 2005 ./ drwxr-xr-x 69 root sys 12288 Sep 19 04:42 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 neko user 30512 Sep 28 2005 neko -rw-r--r-- 1 neko user 30512 Oct 3 2005 root [Mai:~] neko 9# file /usr/lib/faces/neko /usr/lib/faces/neko: SGI imagelib image (100 x 100) [Mai:~] neko 10# file /usr/lib/faces/root /usr/lib/faces/root: SGI imagelib image (100 x 100)

yay!

that did the trick

thnx neko

josehill
Moderator
From New England, USA
Who joined June 6, 2005, 9:53 p.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 22, 2006, 1:54 p.m...

fu wrote: yay!

that did the trick

So, are you going to show us the image? :wink:

fu
From constant traveler [nyc/london/berlin]
Who joined Sept. 29, 2005, 9:39 a.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 22, 2006, 2:03 p.m...

josehill wrote:

fu wrote: yay!

that did the trick

So, are you going to show us the image?

hex!

i'm gonna take some screengrabs later...

i 've been messing with irix's vizual customization (X11 forwarding + VNC too) 2day and it's been (relatively) easy 2 do some funky stuff...

nekonoko
Site Admin
From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 22, 2006, 2:08 p.m...

Will probably look better than my digital camera snapshot - capturing the login screen is (normally) tough (though it sounds like X11 forwarding may be one way to do it)

unixmuseum
From Los Angeles, CA
Who joined April 19, 2004, 4:25 p.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 22, 2006, 2:12 p.m...

We used to have the Simpson's mugshots as visual logins for all of our users, this was a cool display...

nekonoko
Site Admin
From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 22, 2006, 2:16 p.m...

unixmuseum wrote: We used to have the Simpson's mugshots as visual logins for all of our users, this was a cool display...

I bought an Indigo2 on eBay a while back that had the entire clogin window filled with a spoof "Episode I" poster (Bart/Homer)

cicero
From Austria
Who joined July 27, 2005, 12:12 p.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 22, 2006, 3:47 p.m...

nekonoko wrote: You need to rename the image file so it matches your login name, i.e. mv mad_127_100.rgb fu

So it should look like: /usr/local/lib/faces/fu (with fu being the image file itself, not a subdirectory)

Interesting addition to Tips & Tricks. Thanks for this hint neko! I'll try it.