Just a recap that what I wanted to achieve was to use the same boot loader, bootsplash and KDM theme as in SuSE9.3. [ Yes, I know it's matter of taste, but I love that greenary; and I don't get why it's not brought forward by SuSE or left alone when upgrading ] Anyhow, since I asked before and got minimal feedback only, and since there are several different twists and gotchas, here's the HOWTO. Btw. the new themes under SuSE 10 are also professionally done, it's just that I don't like them as much and they smell a lot of Redmond. 1) Trivial: Use Control-Center -> Background to pick your favorite wallpaper/background. [ The Suse10 JPEGs (the Chameleon) fit nicely with the green theme from SuSE93, so I picked that ] 2) Easy: KDM theme Despite the intent and name, this is not configurable through the Control Center KDM config, so don't get stuck there. Instead, this is under the control of a SuSE theme configurable through YaST2. This should be trivial, as the theme for KDM is editable in Control Center -> YaST2 Modules -> System -> /etc/sysconfig Editor -> Desktop -> Display Manager -> DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME, by setting it to SUSE93, however the subsequent SuSEconfig does not really replace the kdmrc file, so there's no visible change for that one either (but maybe I'm getting bitten by dfferent bugs than you). I didn't bother with the new kdmrc file, and instead edited /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc directly, setting the Theme to: Theme=/opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/themes/SUSE93 Caveat: While this is a very beautiful login screen, it does not provide the Redmond style user icons to click on. I might say, good riddance. 3) Intermediate: Bootloader and Bootsplash theme You need to get hold of the content of the SuSE93 bootsplash-theme-SuSE (but don't clobber your SuSE10 installation by installng that package though), then copy the SuSE 9.3 theme under /etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE93. Nearly there, the *.cfg files under the config directory contain hard-coded references to JPEG images in /etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/images, so the references must be modified to point to the SuSE93 directory instead. Then edit /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash and change the THEME entry to SuSE93. Finally, save a copy of your current /boot/initrd* and run initrd -R. Carefully and at your own risk. Alternatively, just get hold of the SuSE93 image and message files and integrate those into the SuSE theme, by updating the .cfg files. Anyway, I'm pretty satisfied with the end result, even if I didn't do much but restore what I was used to. Maybe this will be of use to someone else. Cheers. Martin