On 10/13/06, David Looney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>
> 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.
After a fresh installation of openSUSE10.1, selecting Gnome as the
display system but also loading KDE, the system boots with the Gnome
display manager gdm. After a while, I selected a KDE desktop to see
what would happen. One of the things that happened is that the
display manager changed to _kdm_ .
I can change the window manager to any of half a dozen selections, but
the display manager remains kdm. I can't figure outhow to get back to
gdm short of a complete reinstall, which is ridiculous. The piece
missing from my knowledge is what permanent data (persisting across
reboot) determines whether the boot-time display manager is gdm or kdm
or other.
According to the documentation, and comments in the file, it should be
/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager. But changes to that file, including
making it inaccessible by chmod 000, have no apparent effect on what
happens.
Quick test $ sudo /opt/gnome/sbin/gdmsetup
(gdmsetup:9337): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display
I'll try it again later actually logged in as root.
carl
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