Can't change kdm greeter or style on kde-4.6 maverick or natty

[doctordruidphd]

Seems to be a problem with the kdm login screen in kde-4.6, on both natty and maverick.

I cannot change either the color or the style of the greeter screen; all I get is ugly grey, no matter what I change it to.

kdesudo systemsettings > Login Screen > General > Appearance

uncheck "Use themed greeter"

In "GUI Style" there are several choices, and several chocies in "Color scheme".
Making changes there is reflected correctly in /etc/kde4/apps/kdm/kdmrc

But no changes in the actual login screen. Changing the greeting and logo in the Dialog tab does work as expected.

[SIR_Taco]

Re: Can't change kdm greeter or style on kde-4.6 maverick or natty

That is very strange Doc, but I honestly haven't played with the login settings for a while.

The settings dialogs for it are very antiquated and it's my understanding that they want to move to a strictly theme-based system (kind of like your "Workspace Appearance" section in System Settings. So, in the future it would be more along the lines of: pick theme X, and customize settings available for X. Right now it's a little in limbo and not very well maintained compared to the rest of KDE.

That's my understanding of it anyway.

Cheers

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Can't change kdm greeter or style on kde-4.6 maverick or natty

That may be. Seems like no matter what changes I try to make to the greeter, they are all ignored. I guess the next step is to figure out how to make a greeter theme, since I like a smooth transition from greeter -> splasher -> desktop, and I roll my own on the splasher and desktop.

[SIR_Taco]

Re: Can't change kdm greeter or style on kde-4.6 maverick or natty

I'm with you on that one Doc.

Really I would like to see the same background from grub -> desktop as a default. But maybe I'm just dreaming unless I put some patches in.

Cheers