[Solved]KDM themes in 8.10 KDE 4.1.4

[soonchica]

What kind of tweaks are necessary to make KDM themes other than Oxygen work on Intrepid 4.1.4 ?

SysSett>Advanced>LoginManager>Get New Themes doesn't work Well it kind of works, it downloads the themes, they're in /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/ but aren't on the Theme list

Forum search returned this, but just renaming GdmGreeterTheme.desktop to KdmGreeterTheme.desktop doesn't help, still no additional themes in the theme list.

Any ideas?

[Rog131]

Re: KDM themes in 8.10 KDE 4.1.4

but just renaming GdmGreeterTheme.desktop to KdmGreeterTheme.desktop doesn't help

No it doesn't. KdmGreeterTheme.desktop need to start with [KdmGreeterTheme] (Hardy (?) and later).

> Topic: Installed custom KDM Themes not being listed


Making a directory: /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/funnyname and dropping there:

KdmGreeterTheme.desktop

[KdmGreeterTheme]
Encoding=UTF-8
Greeter=test.xml
Name=This_Is_Very_Important_Line

Description=Test theme

Author=Rog131
Screenshot=face-wink.png

and an imagefile face-wink.png

after this, at here, the Login Manger will show:



What is you renamed KdmGreeterTheme.desktop first line ?

[soonchica]

Re: KDM themes in 8.10 KDE 4.1.4

Tnx 4 a very quick and very helpfull advice.

That's the prob with English not being my first language. I kept wondering why does it say twice to change Gdm to Kdm, didn't get it that the first line inside the Kdm file has to be edited. Tbh, I haven't even opened the file, just renamed it.

Now that I've edited the first line of all the files I have themes.

Tnx again