Carl Lowenstein wrote: > Running openSUSE 10.1, if I spelled it right. Today's exercise was > inspired by a fairly long thread on alt.os.linux.suse discussing > whether it would be possible to add a text message to the login splash > screen. There are two different documented ways of doing this, > neither of them works in 10.1. Also there was much acrimony and > confusion between Display Manager and Window Manager. > > My simple-minded take on this is that the Display Manager puts up the > Login screen. There you possibly get the choice of a few different > Window Managers, and can enter your user name and password. > > So -- after a fair amount of digging around, I discovered where the > graphics are hidden for the two Display Managers -- KDE and Gnome. > /opt/kde3/share/app/kdm/themes/SUSE/Background.jpeg (91541 bytes) > /opt/gnome/share/gdm/themes/GDM-SuSE/Background.jpeg (91541 bytes) > In fact these two files are not only the same length but also the same > content.
I think in Gnome you are expected to run gmdsetup as root, and choose the theme to use or install new "themes" for the graphical greeter to use - the theme package includes an xml file describing the graphics to be used, including the background file, the position of the login window(s) the sessions to be offered, and other items. It's easy to take existing gdm theme packages and make modifications to get a new them package which may be useful to others as well. I'm not sure how it works for kdm. David Looney -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
