Hi, On Wed, 18 May 2005 21:57:38 -0400 John Scott <.> wrote:

On 5/18/05, steve <.> wrote:

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How do I setup the KDE splash screen to appear system wide rather than each user having to specify it individually? 9.3

Cheers, Steve.

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Copy the theme files to a directory in the following path:

/opt/kde3/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/<theme_name>/

This is where the default themes are located.

Then edit /opt/kde3/share/config/ksplashrc (as root), change the Theme = <theme_name>, and save the file.

John

On 9.1 I used to put everything into the above mentioned folder, into the corresponding subfolders; BUT as root I used to link always the theme as "Default" I would like to have for all of my users. (Yeah, of course after a backup of the original 'Default' folder, see later...) At present the situation is: khazad-dum:/etc # ls -l /opt/kde3/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/ total 2 drwxr-xr-x 55 root root 1648 May 1 22:51 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 128 May 1 23:04 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 256 Nov 4 2004 Agent_Splash drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 256 Sep 19 2004 Bad_Bill drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 256 Dec 11 19:18 Blue_Planet drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 256 Dec 11 19:18 Debian_Storm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 2 00:49 Default -> Looney/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 280 Apr 1 23:13 Default.bak <..> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 256 Oct 30 2004 LinuxChick_SuSE drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 256 Apr 1 23:11 Looney <..> In conclusion don't edit anything if you don't know, what you are doing. Later it's still easier to remove a symlink than re-animate your system-wide 'ksplashrc'... Pelibali Ps. In case you decide to give a try for the above "trick, take care of KDE updates; they should overwrite then the folder, where the Default symlink is pointing to...