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.
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
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
Just for fun... If you'll upgrade to 3.1 (I tried 3.1 beta 1), you'll have to change the link again... Really wonder what's wrong with those guys, sometimes... -- Error mounting /dev/brain: backgrounding...
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