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Chapter 3, Login Managers
#20 Scrap X11 for Fancy Login Consoles
HACK
A number of themes are available for Qingy. Figure 3-1 is based on the
theme called “biohazard.”
Prepare to Install Qingy
It is not difficult to install Qingy. First, you must have frame-buffer support
and frame-buffer console support compiled into your Linux kernel (you do
not need boot splash support compiled into the kernel, however). “Jazz Up
Your Debian System Boot”
[Hack #8] and “Graphics on the Console” [Hack #9]
include instructions for compiling frame-buffer support and frame-buffer
console support into the kernel. Once you have modified your kernel,
reboot so that these changes will take effect.
If your system automatically launches a graphical login manager, such as
GDM, KDM, or XDM, the first thing you want to do is disable it. You won’t
need to use it anymore after you have Qingy working.
You can turn off these login managers in several ways. This command is one
way you can do it on a Debian system:
# update-rc.d -f kdm remove
Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/kdm ...
/etc/rc0.d/K01kdm
/etc/rc3.d/S99kdm
Figure 3-1. Qingy login screen