I upgraded my pc to FC4 and KDE 3.4.1-0, and for some reason the login manager does not work anymore. I start kcontrol and set my preferences on the login manager, but the login screen is pretty different to the one I set (it used to work alright in FC3).

# cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
DESKTOP="KDE"
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"

Any ideas?

Thx
Claudio

display manager is KDM not KDE

Maybe this is the problem?

I tried with kdm without luck (I don't know which one is the correct, I was using displaymanager=kde because I found a webpage telling so, may be a typo...).
In any case, by using kcontrol->login manager I choose a background for instance, but the login manager shows a different one, and right after login in then I see for a few seconds the background I chose...

What does your inittab look like? I am curious to see if you spawn KDM from there and if you are entering runlevel 5 by default.

Yes, I am entering runlevel 5. Here is my inittab without comments


id:5:initdefault:
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
pf:owerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"
pr:12345owerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
x:5nce:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

You can try to spawn KDM directly from your inittab file...that's how I do it.

Comment out the "prefdm -nodaemon" line.

Add: "x:5:respawn:/PATH/TO/kdm -nodaemon"

Of course, put in where KDM is on your system. In mine it is in /opt/kde/bin...that isn't really a standard location. Anyway, I think that prefdm line is linking to a directory that doesn't contain KDM...getting rid of it and spawning it yourself should solve the problem.

tried but no luck it starts kdm with my background but switches immediately to the standard one....

So are you talking about the background changing? If so, KDM is running just fine!

I'm not sure how to change the background for KDM outside of kcontrol, if that is the problem...

Yes, may be I have not expressed myself correctly. What I do is to open the kcontrol, go to login manager, specify some options there (a diff background, list of users, etc), but these changes are not seen when kdm is called... and it used to work without problems in FC3...