On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:12:24AM +0200, Rasmus Plewe wrote:

kcontrol -> Appearance & Themes -> Splash Screen Is this what you're looking for?

Unfortunatly not. That is what you see when KDE is starting up. I do not have KDE. It is really the screen where you put in your username and password. At the lower left side, you can choose your session or exit. In the middle are the usernames and on the right are two entries for username and password. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:10:25AM +0000, Guðlaugur Jóhannesson wrote:

houghi wrote:

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Unfortunatly not. That is what you see when KDE is starting up. I do not have KDE. It is really the screen where you put in your username and password. At the lower left side, you can choose your session or exit. In the middle are the usernames and on the right are two entries for username and password.

If you are using kdm, it is controlled in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/backgroundrc

No, it is not and with gdm, I get an even uglier blue during the moment I must log on. :-( houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:47:34AM +0000, Guðlaugur Jóhannesson wrote:

Well, I managed to change it with the KDE control-center. The settings are under "system management" (not the exact term as I have an Icelandic KDE) and "login manager". I did not try to manually edit.

I did that at first and it used to work under 9.1. Now I see in the "login manager" the picture I would like to see and also the location I would like the login to be. When I log out and I restart X, I still see a nice blue screen

And using locate I found another backgroundrc under /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/backgroundrc so you could need to modify that as well.

Both are changed and now look like below. Still I see a nice blue screen with some white dots in the middle [Desktop0] BackgroundMode=HorizontalGradient BlendBalance=100 BlendMode=NoBlending ChangeInterval=60 Color1=164,182,222 Color2=82,109,180 CurrentWallpaper=0 LastChange=0 MinOptimizationDepth=1 MultiWallpaperMode=NoMulti Pattern= Program= ReverseBlending=false UseSHM=false Wallpaper=/media/Backup2/background.jpg WallpaperList= WallpaperMode=Scaled houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:13:30PM +1000, Peter Flodin wrote:

On 09/10/05, houghi wrote:

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No, it is not and with gdm, I get an even uglier blue during the moment I must log on. :-(

Have your run gdmsetup as root?

Well, uhm, no.

You can turn off the "Themed Greeter" as it is called, and just have a coloured screen.

Or you can head over to: http://art.gnome.org/themes/gdm_greeter/ and install a new one or use one you like and edit or replace the backround image, and create your own login theme that you can easily apply to any machine.

GDM can even pick a random login theme from the installed themes.

Great stuff. Thanks. Must look if it is possible to have my login enterd by default, because that is a part I liked with kdm. Now I must see hoe to get an image on my second screen. Still strange I can't seem to edit kdm. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:22:11PM +0200, Christian Boltz wrote:

Hello,

Am Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2005 06:48 schrieb houghi:

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When I boot and must login as user, I get a ble screen. How can I change this? I want my own screen [...]

In kcontrol I already have changed the following: [...]

I guess it's the SUSE theme you are talking about.

There should be a SDB article (for 9,3) about how to get back the "plain" KDM.

If you like manual editing your /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdmrc, set UseTheme=false ;-)

Result. :-) Thanks a lot. The correct file is /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and yes that was it. Is there a way to do this that I missed in kcenter? If not I will file a bugreport. I have looked again and did not see it. An other thing I noticed. When I go to [CTRL][ALT][F1] and do a `init 3`, gdm, kdm and so on keep running. Is that a bug or a feature? I now had to manually kill gdm and kdm and i would not susspect it to be working with `init 3`. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html