KDM theme manager help
 

Is there a way to make the kdm theme manager the default loging manager so that I can change me login screen?

Try xwmconfig and select KDE.

KDM Theme Manager manages the visual theme of the KDM login manager, it is in itself not a login manager.
KDM only starts in runlevel 4, so you have to edit /etc/inittab file and change to and then reboot (or just run "telinit 4" this one time to get into runlevel 4 quickly).

Then you need to install the kdetheme package (like mine: http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/kdmtheme/) and downlod one or more themes from KDE-look.org

Finally - after installing the kdmtheme package - you have to enable KDM Themes in "KDE > Control Center > System Administration > KDM Theme Manager" - this should be done in "Administrator mode" and install one or more of the KDE themes you downloaded.
Once you click "Apply" and logout, you should see the KDM logon screen with your new theme applied.

Eric

I'm wondering if you don't mean "How can I run kdm as a login manager, instead of some other login manager?" (maybe gdm?) If that is your problem, read /etc/rc.d/rc.4 to see how the display managers get started. Then, as root, use "chmod -x /usr/sbin/gdm", to keep it from starting. If gdm does not start, then kdm will.
If the above was not your problem, just disregard this entire post.
Regards,
Bill

Alien_Bob
I installed the kdm manager from your slackbuild and went to init 3 , typed init 4 and started up ... still I saw only the default image and not the kdm theme ... any idea whats wrong ?

What was the difficult-to-grasp part in my sentence "and download one or more themes from KDE-look.org" ;-)

Eric

yeah I did that ... I am using Kuromhin ...

Duryodhan, that default image you're talking about is kdm image or xdm?

yeah. KDM. I set up a image as background in KDM quite some time back. Then I installed kdm-thememanager and edited settings that I will have a new KDM theme... but I still see the old background I had put up.

I to have used kdm theme manager and have had very similar problems.Mine have been with dependencies. If I remember right I needed to install the kde-devel package.I have only got it to work properly in Debian (Lenny)and after having to resolve dependencies there as well.

Frank

Ok,here are the dep. I needed: kdelibs4c2a,libc6,libgcc1,libstdc++6
This is for kdmtheme 1.2-1 I'm told kdmtheme will be standard equipment when KDE 4 is released.Hope this helps.

This is a Slackware forum. We do not have separate "-devel" packages. Slackware is a sane distro where it is easy to compile software.

Eric

dependencies? what are those ?

Sorry, just trying to help. Did not not mean to get anyone mad

well you didn't get me mad ... it was a joke from my part atleast :),

I'm also having issues with this. I installed the KDM package you linked Bob and downloaded and installed half a dozen themes from kde-look. They all show up in the KDM theme manager (which I'm running in root to set up) I check "Enable KDM Themes" and then select the one I want and hit apply. Then I relog and still get the default theme, stupid flower.....
When I go to do it again the "Enable KDM Themes" box is unchecked again and the default theme is selected. I've tried 5 themes from kde-look and even tried to make one, to no avail.

What am I missing here?

Ahhh... Ok I get the administrator mode thing. But it's still doing the same thing.
You know, I'm actually kinda glad it's still doing the same thing, cus for a second there I regarded myself as a complete tool for confusing root and administrator mode...