Wolfgang Bauer composed on 2015-07-21 17:10 (UTC+0200): Thanks!
Felix Miata composed:
Do you really mean the splash screen (which is totally unrelated to KDM), or KDM's theme?
The splash seen when KDM isn't running, shortly after starting startx.
Ok, that's Plasma's splash screen, and totally unrelated to the display manager.
It's not always so easy to keep straight the difference between display manager, and window manager, at least in part because all greeter apps include the string "dm" in their names. ;-)
You have to configure the latter in KDE4's systemsettings, there is no breeze theme available at all.
According to which: Installed: systemsettings5 Not installed: systemsettings
Well, to configure KDM you need the (not installed in your case) KDE4 systemsettings (package kdebase4-workspace-addons), or you can edit /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc manually.
Your "or" is a bothersome suggestion. I've long preferred to manage configuration I understand manually (via OFM's text editor), because it can be done before ever logging into X initially, where the location to make the edits not that infrequently requires fishing for its new location. I typically reserve YaST2 & Systemsettings for configurations not understood. Any time I've used a GUI tool to touch kcmrc, the result has been all the rpm version's comments get stripped out, to be followed eventually by normal updates replacing the file. So I long ago took to creating a symlink to its parent in the /etc/ tree, doing my edit under the symlink, then then setting kdmrc immutable. Why isn't kdmrc already installed somewhere in /etc/, where, under FHS, admin customizations normally belong?
Thanks Wolfgang. Installing oxygen5-style provided the Elarun splash I was after via workspace theme in systemsettings5. It changed the titlebars from much too drab to too bright.
Hm? Just installing oxygen5-style (or setting it as splash screen) shouldn't change the titlebars at all.
If you switched the whole "Look and Feel" to Oxygen, it will also change the color theme though.
Keywords: "via workspace theme". :-D Whole theme *is* what I changed. Breeze is terribly bland, except for its gaudy splash.
But you can of course also change the color of the title bars (active and inactive) in systemsettings5->Colors.
You can also use KDE4's default Oxygen as window decoration if you prefer that, or even KDE3's default Plastik (should be built into kwin I think).
I don't see Plastik selectable anywhere in the K5 installation on the host that lead to this thread. In KDE3 settings on this host, I don't find any way to get the RGB value of its default so as to be able to select it by #HTML/RGB on the colors tab.
I don't see a color scheme I like a whole lot, but it looks like Oxygen Cold might suffice. The default in 13.1's KDE3 is excellent, a slate-blue hue.
You can change single colors too, exactly like in KDE4. Just switch to the "Color Selection" tab.
To actually match the color I want, I need to locate its #HTML/RGB definition somehow.
And the settings module even allows you to download color schemes from the Internet.
In the past I've always managed to find a satisfactory scheme among defaults. The (upstream default) Breeze doesn't provide anything I can live with. The color I like (here in 13.1/KDE3): http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/defTheme131KDE3.jpg
Anyone have any insight why for the Colors tab the apparent blacks are not in fact black (#000000) rather than nearly black (#141312)?
I don't understand you. On my system, if I set black on the Colors tab, it is black, not "nearly black".
What do you mean with that?
On the colors tab, clicking on an apparently black (View Text) select rectangle produces a detailed select color window that reports the #HTML/RGB color values. Black is 0,0,0, but the reported values for black in Breeze are #31363b/49,54,59; in Oxygen Cold #141312/20,19,18. Both will seem black (to most people?), but only until actual black can be compared (nearby). To get genuine black (as genuine as any display can produce), either "0"s need to be typed in or scrolled to, or the upper left needs to be selected from the 6 row/8 column basic colors select group. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org