by Amit Margalit Try our mirrors... Latest News: (Updated: 14-April-1998)

A new patch for XDM-3D has been made available in the ftp area. This patch solves the problem with the *loginMoveInterval resource, and allows a setting of -1 for a non-moving XDM-3D window.
Thanks to Ciro Cattuto!
XBanner 1.31 fixes a few bugs reported against XBanner 1.3 and introduces a few new features.
Many thanks to those who sent me postcards. Please remember to include your EMail address on the postcards so I can reply and let you know I got it.

XBanner is a program designed to beautify your XDM login screen. It can draw text and render some effect on it, and it can fill the background with a nice pattern of colors. XBanner can also put an image on the screen for you, as well as do some mininal animation.

New Features of XBanner 1.31

XBanner 1.31 is mainly a maintenance release, so the new features aren't as exciting as were version 1.3's:

Redrawing of uncovered areas of the screen are now a feature. Use -expose / -noexpose.
Change color cycling direction every few steps (-bgsteps / -effectsteps).
Bug fixes. Many situations reported by various people have been fixed. (Thanks for the bug reports).

From here you can do the following:

Download the software: There are RedHat 4.1 and Debian 1.3 packages (.rpm/.deb) available.
Browse the documentation
Email me about bugs/successes
See samples of XBanner's graphics
Go to the screen-shots page!

Links To Cool Things

Xaw-XPM: Xaw-XPM is a replacement library based on Xaw3D which will make your applications look better than Motif (no re-compile needed, just plug it in, and enjoy!).
Linux 2.0 Unofficial Patches: This list contains a patch that will place a nice little pengiun on your screen while Linux boots. Tiny and cute, requires recompilation of the kernel and a small addition to your startup scripts to remove the penguin, but it's worth it.

Special Friends

Oren Tirosh: Oren has been my friend for many years now. He has helped XBanner in the field of algorithms, and new ideas for effects, and implementation hints.
Rich McClellan: Rich is the guy who gave XBanner a home. He helped me so much during the early days of the web site. XBanner and I owe him a lot.
Chris Yeo: Chris is one of the major helpers to XBanner. Provided the WWW-counter, helped with proofing the docs, and created the RedHat 4.0 packages, as well as helped me get them into the next RedHat distribution.
Ben Spade: Ben helped me proof the docs, and is now maintaining one of the web-site mirrors.
Many others are listed in the Credits file.