[LUG] KDM mistery .. resolved!!

[Rich Smith <Richard.J.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just thought I'd let you know the resolution to the KDM problem I posted 
about a week or so ago. The offending peice of code was in Xsetup_0 located 
in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 for Redhat and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 for 
S.u.S.E. There was a line in there calling xsri (which I have never heard of 
??) which had the option of --redhat-login --set. Commented this out and all 
was fine :). Why RedHat feels the need to have this there when they could 
just set there desired background from GDM/KDM defeats me ?? but there you 
go! 


On Friday 31 May 2002 3:52 pm, John Horne wrote:
> On 31-May-2002 at 14:35:06 Rich Smith wrote:
> >         I'm running a RH 7.2 with KDE 3 at the moment and
> > wondered if anyone else has more experience with KDM with
> > RH than me. I wanted to change the background of KDM from
> > the boring blue with RH logo so did it through the Kontrol
> > panel. Now when X starts the background I chose initially
> > shows but is then covered by the blue RH logo screen? So
> > the change has taken place in the kdmrc file (i've checked
> > it the correct background is in there) but then some other
> > RH script must change the KDM background after the kdmrc
> > has run. Does anyone know what/where this 'extra' RH script
> > is and how to get around its annoying use ???
>
> You may need to look at the /etc/X11/xdm scripts. I can't really say more
> than that. At home I have RH7.3 with KDE3 and have used the default screen
> - I like it :-) At work I have RH7.0/KDE 2 and run xearth in the
> background. However, I seem to remember having to fiddle with the xdm stuff
> to ensure that the earth remained there! I also run xfishtank as my
> screensaver, and that too gave me problems!
>
> I would have thought that this sort of thing was pretty much sorted at
> KDE3.
>
>
> John.
>
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