Mark Hounschell said the following on 11/09/2010 03:59 PM:
On 11/09/2010 10:52 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
A few revisions ago I set up the KDM login screen for a custom background picture. Now after reading David Rankin's posts I'm trying out various Themes instead.
Only they don't take! I'm stuck with my custom picture.
Systemsettings -> loginscreen general -> [x] Use Themed Greeter then select the theme from the "Theme" tab then "apply" and enter root password when prompted.
No change!
Oh, the frustration!
Now is this something crazed like .... I have a 1440x900 screen and it all balks at the idea of using a 1280x1024 image.... or what?
Yea, I think they do that intentionally. In any case once you've downloaded the theme you want to use, it will be found in /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/ After an clean install the only one you'll find there is SUSE. Once you know the directory name of the one/ones you installed simply change the ISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME="SUSE" to point to the directory you want kdm to use. DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME is found in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager.
Hope it helps...
Yes, it does. And I'm, as Captain Renault said when he was told that gambling was going on in Rick's Café, shocked! Shocked! You mean that after all that GUI stuff to download a theme from KDE-look.org and install it, I then have to hand edit a config file? It seems so. Outrageous. I'm shocked! Shocked! But it works. Thank you, Mark. -- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org