Some post-installation bugs with resolution and bottom panel

[kaytrance]

Hello guys!

3 days ago I have installed Kubuntu 10.04, and I must say that I am impressed a lot how beautiful it is. Everuthyng is cool, except couple of things, and I am asking for your help to solve them out.

1. I had a resolution problem, that was in not remembering the resolution I selected, and reverting back to 800x600 just after I reboot. So I have found the solution here and it works just fine after I enter my login details. But in the login screen I get this:

As you can see I have a login box somewhere in the top left corner, as well as the background picture, as if they were tiled because of new higher resolution set. So, is there a way to fix it, so that login box would be in the center of the screen, and background would be placed correctly?

2. Just after I log in my bottom panel looks like this:

On this picture you can see that the panel have some weird black background in the left half of it, and normal one in the right half. And if I change it's size just a little bit, so that it cover not the whole available width, the background of the panel returns to normal.

I would be highly appreciated for any help. Thank you!

[oshunluvr]

Re: Some post-installation bugs with resolution and bottom panel

Seems the swapping resolutions messed with your splash...

I'd be interested to see a part of /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/ethais/ethais.xml

Open this file with kate or kwrite and look at lines 14-17. Somewhere there should be

<normal file="wallpapers/background.png" scalemode="crop"/>

If it says "tile" instead of "crop", you've found it.

You might just try opening System Settings > Appearance > Splash Screen and select "simple", apply, then re-select "Default" and apply

[kaytrance]

Re: Some post-installation bugs with resolution and bottom panel

no, it says "crop". As I understand this settings apply on the screen just after I enter my password and press entre.
But there everything looks OK, the problem is only at the screen where I enter login and password.

I believe the problem is somewhere in kdm...

Here's what this file have inside:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE greeter SYSTEM "greeter.dtd">

<greeter id="theme">
	<style font="Sans 12" window-text-color="#bfd9ff"
	    base-color="#bfd9ff" alternate-base-color="#666666"
	    text-color="#0b678c" disabled-text-color="#333333"
	    base-alpha="0" 
	    disabled-base-color="#ff0000"
	    disabled-base-alpha="0.25" 
	    disabled-highlight-alpha="0"
	    frame="false" />
	    
	<item type="pixmap" id="background" background="true">
		<normal file="wallpapers/background.png" scalemode="crop"/>
		<pos x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%"/>
	</item>
	
	<item type="pixmap" id="system-session">
		<normal file="rectangle.png"/>
		<pos anchor="c" x="50%" y="50%" width="416" height="262"/>
	</item>
<!--	
	<item type="pixmap" id="branding-logo" background="true">
		<normal file="branding.png" alpha=".4" />
		<pos anchor="c" x="50%" y="50%" width="416" height="262"/>
	</item>
-->
	<item type="pixmap" id="system-session">
    <normal alpha="0.1" file="rectangle_overlay.png"/>
    <pos anchor="c" x="50%" y="50%" width="416" height="262"/>
    
    <fixed>
      <item type="label" id="welcome">
        <pos anchor="nw" x="20" y="20"/>
        <normal alpha="0.75" font="Sans Bold 14" color="#0b678c"/>
        <text>%h</text>
      </item>
    </fixed>
  </item>
  
	
	<item type="rect">
    <pos anchor="c" x="50%" y="50%" width="200" height="100"/>
		<box orientation="vertical" spacing="10" homogeneous="true">
      
			<item type="rect" id="user-field">
				<pos anchor="c" x="50%" y="50%" width="200" height="box"/>
				<fixed>
          <item type="pixmap">
            <pos anchor="w" x="0" y="50%"/>
            <normal file="user_icon.png"/>
          </item>
        
          <item type="pixmap">
            <pos anchor="w" x="42" y="50%"/>
            <normal file="lineedit_normal.png"/>
            <prelight file="lineedit_active.png"/>
            <active file="lineedit_active.png"/>
          </item>
          
          <item type="entry" id="user-entry">
            <pos anchor="w" x="49" y="50%" width="140" height="20"/>
          </item>
        </fixed>
      </item>
      
      <item type="rect" id="user-field2">
        <pos anchor="c" x="50%" y="50%" width="200" height="box"/>
        <fixed>
          <item type="pixmap" button="true">
            <pos anchor="w" x="0%" y="50%"/>
            <normal file="lock.png"/>
          </item>
        
          <item type="pixmap">
            <pos anchor="w" x="42" y="50%"/>
            <normal file="lineedit_normal.png"/>
            <prelight file="lineedit_active.png"/>
            <active file="lineedit_active.png"/>
          </item>
          
          <item type="entry" id="pw-entry">
            <pos anchor="w" x="49" y="50%" width="140" height="20"/>
          </item>
        </fixed>
      </item>
		</box>
	</item> 
	
	<item type="rect" id="system-session">
    <pos anchor="c" x="50%" y="50%" width="416" height="262"/>
    <fixed>
      <item type="label">
        <pos anchor="se" x="-15" y="-20"/>
        <normal font="Sans Bold 8" color="#0b678c"/>
        <text>%c</text>
      </item>
      
      <item type="pixmap" id="session_button" button="true">
        <normal alpha="0.8" file="session_normal.png"/>
        <prelight file="session_normal.png"/>
        <active file="session_normal.png"/>
        <pos anchor="sw" x="22" y="-20"/>
      </item>
      
      <item type="pixmap" id="system_button" button="true">
        <normal alpha="0.8" file="system_normal.png"/>
        <prelight file="system_normal.png"/>
        <active file="system_normal.png"/>
        <pos anchor="sw" x="50" y="-20"/>
      </item>
      
      <item type="pixmap" id="login_button" button="true">
        <normal file="login_normal.png"/>
        <prelight file="login_active.png"/>
        <active file="login_active.png"/>
        <pos anchor="e" x="-20" y="50%"/>
      </item>
    </fixed>
  </item>

	<item type="rect" id="caps-lock-warning">
    <pos anchor="c" x="50%" y="50%" width="416" height="262"/>
    <fixed>
      <item type="label" id="mesage">
        <normal color="#0b678c" font="Sans Bold 10"/>
        <pos anchor="s" x="50%" y="80%"/>
        <stock type="caps-lock-warning"/>
      </item>	
    </fixed>
	</item>

	<item type="rect" id="pam-error-paceholder">
	<pos anchor="c" x="50%" y="98%" widht="615" height="200"/>

		<item type="label" id="dummy1">
			<normal alpha="0" color="#0b678c" font="Sans Bold 10"/>
			<!-- </text> -->
		</item>
		
		<item type="label" id="pam-error">
			<pos anchor="c" x="50%" y="50%" expand="true"/>
			<normal alpha="0" color="#0b678c" font="Sans Bold 10"/>
			<!-- </text> -->
		</item>

	</item>

</greeter>

[oshunluvr]

Re: Some post-installation bugs with resolution and bottom panel

That file looks the same as mine - I agree it's the Greeter that is messed up, but all you have in kdmrc is

Theme=/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/ethais
UseBackground=true
UseTheme=true

unless something changed that. I assume you've looked at the actual wallpaper to verify it's full sized?

/usr/share/wallpapers/Ethais/contents/images/

Should have 1920x1200.png in it and naught else.

Did you try changing to a different greeter theme and back again?

[kaytrance]

Re: Some post-installation bugs with resolution and bottom panel

Should have 1920x1200.png in it and naught else.

Just did it and it truly is 1920x1200, and it weights 1,7Mb. A believe it isn't wallpaper problem because of my login box is located in the top left corner, not in the middle of a screen (have a look at the first screen). Something in the system still thinks I have 800x600 screen, and tiles everything, including the login box, and a wallpaper, that actually is already 1920x1200 of a size.

Did you try changing to a different greeter theme and back again?

In the KDM settings (under System Settings -> Advanced -> Login manager -> Theme I only have one theme called Ethais. Maybe what you mentioned as "Greeter theme" should be changed somewhere else?