Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (218 mails)

[Peter Nunn <pnunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Dave,

I had to make the link the other way (hope that won't break anything
else) to get it to work (when I did it your way, I just got a blank X
window with a tiny console window on it for some reason), and its
working just great now.

Thanks again.

Peter.

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 22:37, Dave Barton wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 10:43, Peter Nunn wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I've just installed 3.0.3 on my Suse 8 system (using rpm & -nodeps) from
> > the KDE site and it is all running quite nicely except for the fact that
> > all the users are showing up on the login screen.
> > 
> > I can change the icon for the users, but thats about it. I can't get it
> > to not show the other users (even if I move them all into the ignore
> > dialog box) and can't even turn off the graphical login.
> > 
> > Any idea what's going on here?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Peter.
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I had the same problem. It sems to be a known condition.
> The following is a copy of the solution posted to the list, which
> resolved the problem for me:
> 
> <Q>
> Usually, problems like these are because the control centre works on one
> config file and kdm actually uses another. The symlink between the two
> are broken in the upgrade.
> 
> Check that /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc actually is a symlink to
> /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. if it isn't, create it with
> 
> ln -s /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
> /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
> 
> In the /etc/opt/kd[...] directory it's a possibility (it happened to me)
> that rpm will have moved kdmrc to kdmrc.rpmsave. If that's the case,
> just rename it to kdmrc before you create the symlink.
> 
> regards
> Anders
> </Q>
> 
> HTH
> 
> Dave
>