The Cache: Technology Expert's Forum
 
*
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register. February 12, 2012, 06:51:31 AM

Login with username, password and session length


Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: if I want to do this .... how ?  (Read 726 times)
NYDAz
Expert
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 209


The night stalker


View Profile WWW
« on: December 18, 2009, 08:06:47 AM »

When I turn on my UNIX i want to display some messages !

Something like a picture, a text !

How can I do this little app ?

I'm clueless

 Huh?
Logged

I'm an educated fool, with money on my mind !
perkiset
Olde World Hacker
Administrator
Lifer
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 9792



View Profile
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2009, 09:59:45 AM »

http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/
Logged

It is now believed, that after having lived in one compound with 3 wives and never leaving the house for 5 years, Bin Laden called the U.S. Navy Seals himself.
vsloathe
vim ftw!
Global Moderator
Lifer
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 1669



View Profile
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2009, 01:06:09 PM »

Depends on your WM/DM (window manger or display manager). If you're using Gnome, then it's probably GDM. Look up "GDM splash screen" and you should find what you need.

If you don't mind it appearing after the initial splash, you could probably just put something in your .bashrc
Logged

hai
NYDAz
Expert
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 209


The night stalker


View Profile WWW
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2009, 03:40:38 AM »

where the fuck ... did you guys learn all this ?

I'm feeling  D'oh! right now  Roll Eyes !

I'm using GNOME !

Splash screen = that means the screen on startup ?

Basically what I want to do is after I've logged in and start-up my os to display a random picture from a folder or a random text from a text file !

Example : to display some wise words everytime I've logged in to my computer !

Then I'll cron it to make it appear every 1 hour !

I don't think splashy could to this job ...

I need more motivation, if you know what I mean  !
Logged

I'm an educated fool, with money on my mind !
perkiset
Olde World Hacker
Administrator
Lifer
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 9792



View Profile
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2009, 03:49:54 PM »

Ah no, splashy is about a startup graphic when the machine very first comes on, not when you first log in. My mistake.
Logged

It is now believed, that after having lived in one compound with 3 wives and never leaving the house for 5 years, Bin Laden called the U.S. Navy Seals himself.
Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Perkiset's Place Home   Best of The Cache   phpMyIDE: MySQL Stored Procedures, Functions & Triggers
Politics @ Perkiset's   Pinkhat's Perspective   
cache
mart
coder
programmers
ajax
php
javascript
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.2 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC
Seo4Smf v0.2 © Webmaster's Talks


Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!