Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: But now when KDM start I get half a screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right half of the right monitor. KDM does the same for me on a wide-screen monitor. In fact it could be a security risk because after logging out of KDE, random pieces of screen from the last session sometimes show up on the garbage parts on the sides, including potentially sensitive information. It does not appear to support any kind of screen size detection. What you need to do is find (or make) a theme that is the same size/aspect ratio as your display setup and then it'll be okay. It's trying to use a 4:3 theme on a 8:3 or 16:9 or whatever and apparently the KDM people haven't gotten around to dealing with that yet. For now, I simply edited kdmrc and set UseTheme to false. Still haven't figured out how to use System Settings, Advanced, Login Manager. Can't get anything to be enabled for editing. I've tried: * chmod -R 755 the config directories (/usr/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/share/config) * reset the config files with: genkdmconf --no-old The ownership of the conf files is root:root, so am thinking the permissions should be 775, but I've found multiple sources that state the perms should be 755, which would make since if I had an Admin button like they refer to. Maybe a sudo setup or something... Thank you, Roy
Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: But now when KDM start I get half a screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right half of the right monitor. KDM does the same for me on a wide-screen monitor. In fact it could be a security risk because after logging out of KDE, random pieces of screen from the last session sometimes show up on the garbage parts on the sides, including potentially sensitive information. It does not appear to support any kind of screen size detection. What you need to do is find (or make) a theme that is the same size/aspect ratio as your display setup and then it'll be okay. It's trying to use a 4:3 theme on a 8:3 or 16:9 or whatever and apparently the KDM people haven't gotten around to dealing with that yet. For now, I simply edited kdmrc and set UseTheme to false. Still haven't figured out how to use System Settings, Advanced, Login Manager. Can't get anything to be enabled for editing. I've tried: * chmod -R 755 the config directories (/usr/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/share/config) * reset the config files with: genkdmconf --no-old The ownership of the conf files is root:root, so am thinking the permissions should be 775, but I've found multiple sources that state the perms should be 755, which would make since if I had an Admin button like they refer to. Maybe a sudo setup or something... KDE4 system settings has no support for allowing you to enter Administrator mode from system settings, but some distros have their own patch to enable this. I think it is planned to be added in KDE 4.4 officially. For now you can open a run dialog and type kdesu systemsettings to have the admin options enabled for editing.
Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?
Paul Hartman wrote: For now you can open a run dialog and type kdesu systemsettings to have the admin options enabled for editing. That works great! Thank you, Roy
Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: Howdy, Well I just went back to using two monitors in twinview mode after a few months of single monitor suffering. But now when KDM start I get half a screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right half of the right monitor. OK, should just need to set the background image. So head over to Computer, System Settings, Advanced, Login Manager but got a problem, everything there is disabled. Docs imply there should be an Admin button but it's not there (Have: Help, Defaults, Reset(disabled), Apply(disabled)). Thinking, oh well, off to /usr/kde/4.2/share/config/kdm, edit kdmrc and set GreeterScreen to -1 (the only multi display setting I saw) to see what happens. Ran genkdmconf. Restarted xdm. No change. Any ideas? KDM does the same for me on a wide-screen monitor. In fact it could be a security risk because after logging out of KDE, random pieces of screen from the last session sometimes show up on the garbage parts on the sides, including potentially sensitive information. It does not appear to support any kind of screen size detection. What you need to do is find (or make) a theme that is the same size/aspect ratio as your display setup and then it'll be okay. It's trying to use a 4:3 theme on a 8:3 or 16:9 or whatever and apparently the KDM people haven't gotten around to dealing with that yet.
