I'm in the cycle of KDE 4.2.96 daily updates. I'm faced with an oddity with KDM It used to be that I could run 'systemsettings' and go via "advanced" -> "login manager" at which point I'd be asked for the root password. I could then either set the theme for KDM or set up a custom background, and then various other settings. Well now a 'zypper dup' or 'zypper up' that brings in a new kdm also tells me that it has brought in a new config file but saved it as a RPMNEW. However that /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc and the backgroundrc is being ignored. In fact the systemsettings doesn't ask for the root password and can't alter the file, and when I use KDESU an the config file does get changed, this 4.2.96 KDM ignores it. What this new KDM *does* take notice of is the setting in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager. Its currently set to SUSE. KDM now seems to be using the settings in /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes However when I try fetching new themes I can't - lets leave that for the moment. I can't call this changed behaviour an outright bug, unless you want to call systemsettings doing nothing a bug. But its changed, an the control I once had over the login screen via GUI, as opposed to editing the contents of a theme, the graphics and the XML, by hand. But its changed. I'm not one of these people who follows the KDE lists an IRC, so I'm wondering if this is a real design change, and anomaly, some setting I've missed or what. can someone who does track these things please advise me. -- There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. -- Alfred Korzybski -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org