March 2005
Beginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
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Chapter 3, Login Managers
#20 Scrap X11 for Fancy Login Consoles
HACK
# cd /usr/local/src
# tar jxvf qingy-0.5.2.tar.bz2
# cd qingy-0.5.2
# ./configure
# make
# make install
You can specify an alternate prefix when you run ./configure. The prefix
tells the build session where to install the files. For example, if you want
Qingy to install in /usr/sbin, you would type:
# ./configure --prefix=/usr
The default setting will install the qingy program in /usr/local/sbin, and store
the settings file in /usr/local/etc/. This installs the default theme to /usr/local/
share/qingy/themes.
Configure Linux to Use Qingy
If you took the preceding advice, you have already compiled and are run-
ning a Linux kernel that supports frame-buffer consoles. This means you
can see the immediate results of any changes to your console settings.
To avoid any potential complications, make all of these changes from a vir-
tual console that is not going to be configured for Qingy. For this example,
only the first two virtual consoles will be configured as Qingy login screens.
If you are logged in to virtual console 1 or 2, press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log out of
the first virtual console, then press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and log out of the second vir-
tual console. If you don’t log out of these consoles, the changes you make
will not take effect immediately. Then press Ctrl-Alt-F3 to go to the third
virtual terminal (which will not run Qingy), and ...
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