VMWare View Cosmetic Changes
April 20th, 2009 by Nick Ohanian received 4 Comments »The vanilla view portal is nice and all but I wanted to add some flavor to it. In our set-up we have external security connection servers and internal connection servers. First off, let’s have a look at the splash page to see what’s available… Using my unsupported client I launched Firefox along with FireBug (a great web development tool, if you don’t have this one installed already) and started to inspect the splash page layout. After looking through the code for awhile, it appears to have some xhtml / css / and graphic files in two different directories. These directories consist of:
C:\Program Files\VNware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\admin\images\
C:\Program Files\VNware\VMware View\Server\sslgateway\conf\docroot\error
C:\Program Files\VNware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\styles\default\
So lets get down to business! First and foremost make a backup copy of the folders listed above……… OK. Moving onwards. Let’s change the VMWARE logo to reflect our corporate logo.
- Navigate to C:\Program Files\VNware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\ styles\default\ and open the file banner_title_v_portal.gif with your favorite editor. I like to use GIMP (open-source) or Photoshop (commerical/retail) products depending on what you need to do. Alternatively, you can always use good old paint (if you’re using a Windows pc of course).
- Modify the graphic as you see fit and save it replacing the default picture.
- To change the logo navigate to C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\ styles\default\ and edit the file banner_logo.gif
- Lastly, there’s one last image located on the top left corner, this file is in C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\styles\default\ and is named banner_vmware.gif.
- Let’s go ahead and change the Title of the Page, this can be found via: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\styles\default\. The file you want to open with textpad,notepad,wordpad is: style.css.
- To change the graphic file (the .ico) replace favicon.ico located in directory C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\ with a modified .ico of your chosing.
- Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\web.xml holds all the data
Is there more to this than was posted. You have a #6 but I’m not seeing anything after it. Perhaps there is more in regards to editing the style sheet?
Jon – There is, I need to find out what I did with the remaining post. I’ll check in two days when I get back to work and see what I left out! *sigh*.
Thanks for the note.
Hi Nick
Have you had a chance to repost #6 I am modifying an installation to make it look more interesting and I came across your article.
Many Thanks
Hi Andy – I lost my document, and am going to have to work on another one when time permits I do apologize. The changes weren’t anything super significant as most of the view technology is wrapped inside .jre files that are associated with a bunch of different classes. I would have liked the ability to customize the whole page but I spent a couple of days on it and didn’t get as far as I wanted to. If I was not sparking up some new VMWare sites at the moment I would continue this document. I’ll try and muster up some time next week to continue working on it. If you have any specific questions feel free to drop me an e-mail.