Hey everyone...

I recently changed my login manager to kdm and set the options under
KDE Control Center for the appearance I wanted. I restarted X and also
rebooted the computer, but kdm isn't using the background I chose.
It's using the standard bluecurve that gdm uses by default.

Anyone know how I can change this?

Whitewater

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Whitewater wrote:

> Hey everyone...
>
> I recently changed my login manager to kdm and set the options under
> KDE Control Center for the appearance I wanted. I restarted X and also
> rebooted the computer, but kdm isn't using the background I chose.
> It's using the standard bluecurve that gdm uses by default.
>
> Anyone know how I can change this?

Did you perhaps forget to change the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file;

DESKTOP="KDE"
DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE


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On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:35:36 GMT, Whitewater
<whitewater_3@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hey everyone...
>
>I recently changed my login manager to kdm and set the options under
>KDE Control Center for the appearance I wanted. I restarted X and also
>rebooted the computer, but kdm isn't using the background I chose.
>It's using the standard bluecurve that gdm uses by default.
>
>Anyone know how I can change this?
>
>Whitewater

I don't know of a GUI that does it, but there should be a
configuration file - it's /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc on FC3, probably on FC4
too - with comments explaining what the settings do.  The gdm-like
bluecurve "theme" can be replaced either by turning off themes or
selecting a different one, e.g.

# Whether the greeter should be themed.
# Default is false
#UseTheme=true
# The theme to use for the greeter. Can point to either a directory or
an XML
# file.
# Default is ""
Theme=/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/Bluecurve

Themes mask some of the more basic settings, so that may be why you
aren't seeing the right background.

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On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:29:28 GMT, Some Other Somebody Else
<m.d.n.plop.agy@worldnet.a.fizz.tt.net> wrote:

>On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:35:36 GMT, Whitewater
><whitewater_3@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>
>I don't know of a GUI that does it, but there should be a
>configuration file - it's /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc on FC3, probably on FC4
>too - with comments explaining what the settings do.  The gdm-like
>bluecurve "theme" can be replaced either by turning off themes or
>selecting a different one, e.g.
>
># Whether the greeter should be themed.
># Default is false
>#UseTheme=true
># The theme to use for the greeter. Can point to either a directory or
>an XML
># file.
># Default is ""
>Theme=/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/Bluecurve
>
>Themes mask some of the more basic settings, so that may be why you
>aren't seeing the right background.


That did it. I changed 'UseTheme" to false and the screen now displays
the background I chose.

It must be something the people working on Fedora 4 implemented. I
didn't have any trouble changing the login screen in Fedora 3.

Thanks
Whitewater

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Some Other Somebody Else wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:35:36 GMT, Whitewater
> <whitewater_3@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> I don't know of a GUI that does it, but there should be a
> configuration file - it's /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc on FC3, probably on FC4
> too - with comments explaining what the settings do.  The gdm-like
> bluecurve "theme" can be replaced either by turning off themes or
> selecting a different one, e.g.
>
> # Whether the greeter should be themed.
> # Default is false
> #UseTheme=true
> # The theme to use for the greeter. Can point to either a directory or
> an XML
> # file.
> # Default is ""
> Theme=/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/Bluecurve
>
> Themes mask some of the more basic settings, so that may be why you
> aren't seeing the right background.

I also found a setting in that file (etc/kde/kdmrc) that allows any user
to shutdown/reboot the system like Gnome does.

Change AllowShutdown=root
to AllowShutdown=All

restart kdm (CTRL-Backspace)

When you logout, it will give you the options to log out, shutdown the
computer, or restart the computer.

Whitewater

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