Changing Solaris 7 Splash screen...

[Bill McDevitt]

Hi,

We are trying to change the Solaris 7 splash screen (CDE) to something
of our own choosing (in this case, a government warning screen).
Where does the bmp (or other file type) for the Solaris 7 Splash
reside in the system and what is the name of it, or is it embedded in
a binary file that you cannot change?

We would like our own splash screen to stay up for, say 30 seconds,
then disappear. How would you control the length of time it stays up?
This would have to work for all users. Does anyone know an alternate
way to do this if the above will not work? Our splash screen is
currently a bitmap, but we could change it to another format if
necessary.

Thanks in advance.

Regards, Bill
Las Vegas, NV USA

[Alan Coopersmith]

[email]bmcdevitt@copper.net[/email] (Bill McDevitt) writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|We are trying to change the Solaris 7 splash screen (CDE) to something
|of our own choosing (in this case, a government warning screen).
|Where does the bmp (or other file type) for the Solaris 7 Splash
|reside in the system and what is the name of it, or is it embedded in
|a binary file that you cannot change?

It's in Sun Raster format - sdtimage can convert other image formats
to that format. /usr/dt/config/images/Solaris.im* (im1 is black &
white, im8 is 8-bit color, im8g is 8-bit grayscale).

|We would like our own splash screen to stay up for, say 30 seconds,
|then disappear. How would you control the length of time it stays up?
| This would have to work for all users. Does anyone know an alternate
|way to do this if the above will not work? Our splash screen is
|currently a bitmap, but we could change it to another format if
|necessary.

You could play with dthello or something similar in one of the dtlogin
scripts - read the dtlogin man page for the gory details.

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