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Author: Go Linux
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] but I lose it once I log in
On Fri, 5/13/16, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@???> wrote:

Subject: Re: [DNG] but I lose it once I log in
To: dng@???
Date: Friday, May 13, 2016, 10:34 AM

On 2016-05-13 15:20, Go Linux wrote:
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Fri, 5/13/16, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
>
> Subject: [DNG] but I lose it once I log in
> To: dng@???
> Date: Friday, May 13, 2016, 9:37 AM
>
>> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 09:40:04PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I just installed the beta, in a VM, using the x64 DVD iso.
>> >>
>> >> In my opinion, the user interface was very pleasing. The faded purple
>> >> is very relaxing. The fonts are all crisp and clear, even in a tiny VM.
>> >> And I **LOVE** the fact that the titlebar of the focused window is an
>> >> extremely different color than those without focus. I'm a production
>> >> man, and appreciate knowing at the quickest glance which window has
>> >> focus.
>> >>
>> >> Great job on the UI.
>> >>
>> >> SteveT
>> >
>> > Yes that's a nice colour I see at start-up. I wouldn't mind having
>> > it after I log in.
>> >
>> > But once things are going -- I use xfce -- I have a brighgt
>> > yellow-green screen. I seem to have nno way t change it. I can
>> > use Applicatinos Menu -> settings to change the settings, and they'rre
>> > still there the next time I adjust settings, but the seem to have no
>> > effect on the actual screen.
>> >
>> > I can use geeqie to set a background image, but I have to do that every
>> > time I start up.
>> >
>> > -- hendrik
> >
>>
>> Unfortunately the slim login is still leafy color. Once you get to the desktop, you should have the purpy wallpaper but with the unintended blue icons and incorrect adwaita pointer. All that should have been fixed by now but there have been more important issues than cosmetics. It really is on the todo list. At least the boot screen is getting there . . .
>>
>> golinux
>
> @'Hendrik Bloom':
> I no longer have SliM installed on my Devuan machine, but I remember
> that the background image was set in a file named something like
> '/etc/slim.conf' or '/etc/slim/slim.conf' or
> '/usr/share/slim/slim.conf'
>
> @'Go Linux':
> Why not just tell Hendrik how to change the background himself? It's a
> trivial change to a text config file. I no longer have the package
> installed and don't remember the file name.
>


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Why? Because I have never done it myself! Here's the link to your notes:

https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/slim/issues/10

golinux