MDK Red Screen
 

In 8.2, when you log in as root, you get a red background, and as a user you get a blue background. You will still get those dang screens initially as KDE loads up even if you have a wallpaper.

Is there a file I can edit that will prevent that? I jsut want them to be the same color and such

I believe that the red background for root is there to warn you that you shouldn't being using X as root or at least remind you not to do something dumb. Anyway, right click then configure desktop should be able to change the background color... I am not sure what you mean by "those dang screens"

Once I log in as root or a user, those red/blue colored screens will change to whatever background I have picked, from a picture to another color.

But upon initial loading, they are there, and I dont want them to be. I want them to remain whatever color the KDM login screen is.

Those dang screens are referring to the red and blue ones.

Yes i know that one! Red ugly screen, not only in
KDE, but in Gnome, Xfce and Windowmaker also
And i have found them all :)
for globals change
etc/X11/Xsession where it says xsetroot -solid "#B20003"
change that for blue in "666699" (or whatever color but red)
well i said globals but mandrake screwed more files
all in the line with xsetroot
for kde /usr/bin/startkde (u can disable the splashscreen also)
for gnome /usr/bin/startgnome (can't disable splash from here
but there is a workaround)
for Xfce etc/X11/xfce/xinitrc
for WindowMaker /usr/X11R6/bin/startwindowmaker
if you want a wallpaper instead of solids i think you can use
xli (man xli haven't tried it yet)
good luck

Don't change the red root screen. Like the others said, it's there as a warning. I personally have used KDE's setting to give a marble color a red tinge when I'm logged in as root while in the GUI. You shouldn't be logged in as root that much. Much of what you can do as root, you can do by running su-ing in a shell or running the Mandrake apps that are keyed in to start as root from your user account. The only exceptions are when you you are doing filesystem maintenance on your /home partition and need to unmount it first, or you are doing something that just isn't practical from a user account..

As for changing the color of the background, go into KDE's settings for the background color and change it there.
You can even give the backgound color a fade to another color if you want... and even have that color or fade pattern bleed into the bitmap you use as a wallpaper.

i think you are right about not to login as root, but
another background (except red) will do, as long
its different then the normal user's
so my root has a solid blue one and all others are
tiled xpm's or contain penguins

i think its really awful red imho
regards