Changing Gnome Login Manager...

burki · 02-23-2005, 10:01 AM

i read how to change the GNOME LOGIN GREETER, the one which comes up when you want to login. Now i changed it by being root but it doesnt change. i mean i change the settings but when i reboot there is no change.

can i do that from somewhere else??? or any other ideas???

bunnadik · 02-23-2005, 10:23 AM

Do you want to change the look of it or do you want to change it to the KDE version?

If the latter, make sure you have it installed 'urpmi kdebase-kdm' , edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop and
add a "DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm" entry.

- Peder

burki · 02-23-2005, 11:00 AM

i want to change the look of it

bunnadik · 02-23-2005, 11:09 AM

Get a theme and put it in /usr/share/gdm/themes (google for "gdm themes"
Edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and change the "GraphicalTheme" to the one you installed.

- Peder

burki · 02-23-2005, 12:20 PM

should i extract the tar.gz file to theme folder or just copy as it and write the name to the graphicalTheme line.

and by the way the one i chose from gdmsetup is also written in the config but i still cant see the login theme. i see this mandrake linux default theme.

burki · 02-23-2005, 05:46 PM

oki i solved the problem...