Re: How to play a short movie before login?

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:07:35 -0800, CptDondo staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
Is it possible to set up [gkx]dm to play a short movie before showing
the login prompt? I'd like to be able to play short clips just for
fun....

I think you'd have to write some code in order to do that. The ?dm code
can display images in a variety of formats, but not MPEGs. kdm can do a
slide show, but not movies. Or... hmm, kdm has the Startup= line in
$KDEDIRS/share/config/kdm/kdmrc , they say that gets run after logging
in and before starting a user session. So you could write a script that
checks $USER and does "mplayer -geometry XxY
/usr/share/movies/$USER.avi" or something. I think gdm might have an
option to do something like that somewhere as well. HTH,

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