Randall R Schulz wrote:
/etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
AFAIK, this is the one used for kdm config
Meaning the file above the answer is the one used by the program kdm.
/etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.SuSEconfig
This is there because you edited kdmrc (either directly or through KDE Control Center)
I have never manually edited any of these files.
Which is why I said either directly OR through the Login Manager editor which is a part of the KDE Control Center. Anyway, SuSEconfig makes this file if /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc has been changed by something other than itself.
/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
This is the file edited by KDE CC, which should be a symlink to #1 above so that the changes works.
Meaning the file above the answer is the file edited by the Login Manager of KDE CC. If it is not a link to the corresponding /etc version, then the edits have no effect because they edit the wrong file.
/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.bak
This may be the old symlink renamed when you updated kde
When you first installed, /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc was a symlink to /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. When you update, rpm will either replace this file with the new one and keep the old one as kdmrc.rpmsave, or not and save the new one as kdmrc.rpmnew. Assuming you have rpmconfigcheck turned on, you may get a warning on boot about these types of files. One way to deal with them is to rename to .bak if you don't want to delete nor replace.
/opt/kde3/share/config/SuSE/default/kdmrc /opt/kde3/share/doc/HTML/en/kdm/kdmrc-ref.docbook /var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5/etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
Self explanatory
What is? How so?
I'm sorry, they seemed that way to me, because of the directories they were in. /opt/kde3/share/config/SuSE/default/kdmrc is obviously SuSE's default kdmrc (kdm config file) /opt/kde3/share/doc/HTML/en/kdm/kdmrc-ref.docbook is documentation. /var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5/etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc is the way SuSEconfig knows if the /etc...kdmrc file has changed, by comparing the md5 sum.
Which one do I want to edit?
If you symlink it correctly, CC will work. Else #1.
To what does "it" refer?
/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. i.e. cd /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm mv kdmrc kdmrc.old ln -s /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc kdmrc Then, you may use the Login Manager program in KDE Control Center to edit this file, or edit /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc with the editor of choice. NOTE. The original file is full of great instructions and comments to help you edit it directly. Once you edit the file (either via KDE CC or via SuSEconfig), you lose all the commented stuff and are left with the actual config info. That is why I usually do not delete the original kdmrc from /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm but instead rename it to compare the info to the one that needs editing.
Too much work! Use yast system, etc/sysconfig editor. goto Desktop, Display manager, find DISPLAYMANAGER_KDE_THEME and remove "suse" just leave it blank. now you can see the old stlye login, and change the background, add clock, etc Seems much easier than manually editing files.