Login background change

[Anne Wilson]

Currently when I log in I get the solar backdrop.  How can I change this to 
leonidas?

Anne

[Kevin Kofler]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> Currently when I log in I get the solar backdrop.  How can I change this
> to leonidas?

You need to change your KDM theme to the Leonidas theme. You can't change
the background of a theme, you can only switch the theme or turn the
theming off entirely.

Kevin Kofler

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Sonntag, 28. Juni 2009 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Currently when I log in I get the solar backdrop.  How can I
> > change this to leonidas?
>
> You need to change your KDM theme to the Leonidas theme. You can't
> change the background of a theme, you can only switch the theme or
> turn the theming off entirely.

Hm, I am not aware that I have change my theme after upgrade, but I 
may be wrong. I have changed the theme of kdm. Is this sufficient?

Martin
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[Kevin Kofler]

Martin (KDE) wrote:
> Hm, I am not aware that I have change my theme after upgrade, but I
> may be wrong. I have changed the theme of kdm. Is this sufficient?

I'm talking about the KDM theme.

Kevin Kofler

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Sonntag, 28. Juni 2009 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> Martin (KDE) wrote:
> > Hm, I am not aware that I have change my theme after upgrade, but
> > I may be wrong. I have changed the theme of kdm. Is this
> > sufficient?
>
> I'm talking about the KDM theme.

Ah, I missed the point. I thought of the backgrount _after_ login not 
for kdm.

I usually changed the kdmrc file by hand, so the comments are not 
lost. At my host the kdm ksettings dialog usually removed all 
commented lines and there are options the kdm config dialog can not 
change.
>     Kevin Kofler

Martin

[Martin (KDE)]

Hallo Anne

Am Sonntag, 28. Juni 2009 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> Currently when I log in I get the solar backdrop.  How can I change
> this to leonidas?

right klick on the background and select "settings" (those with the 
litte tool as icon - I don't know the right name as I am on german 
view. There it is "Einstellungen zum Erscheinungsbild"). There you can 
change the background picture. But I missed the leonidas picture the 
first time as well.
> Anne

Martin

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 28 June 2009 17:27:04 Martin (KDE) wrote:
> Hallo Anne
>
> Am Sonntag, 28. Juni 2009 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> > Currently when I log in I get the solar backdrop.  How can I change
> > this to leonidas?
>
> right klick on the background and select "settings" (those with the
> litte tool as icon - I don't know the right name as I am on german
> view. There it is "Einstellun> > Anne
>
> Martin
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> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde
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gen zum Erscheinungsbild"). There you can
> change the background picture. But I missed the leonidas picture the
> first time as well.

Sure, but that changes the desktop background, which I already knew - although 
since the leonidas screens are just called 1024x600 I didn't notice them.  
Unfortunately, I'm still left with a Solar background to the login screen.

Kevin's 'Change the theme' sounds reasonable, but where?  The logical place, 
to me, is in systemsettings > Appearance, but I don't see anything there that 
helps.  The Splash Screen is already leonidas.  Next stop, systemsettings > 
Advanced tab > Desktop Theme Details - no leonidas there.

Kevin - just where do I make this change?

Anne

[Kevin Kofler]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> Kevin's 'Change the theme' sounds reasonable, but where?  The logical
> place, to me, is in systemsettings > Appearance, but I don't see anything
> there that
> helps.  The Splash Screen is already leonidas.  Next stop, systemsettings
> > Advanced tab > Desktop Theme Details - no leonidas there.
>
> Kevin - just where do I make this change?

System Settings / Advanced / System: Login Manager / Theme

Kevin Kofler

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 28 June 2009 19:12:31 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Kevin's 'Change the theme' sounds reasonable, but where?  The logical
> > place, to me, is in systemsettings > Appearance, but I don't see anything
> > there that
> > helps.  The Splash Screen is already leonidas.  Next stop, systemsettings
> > > Advanced tab > Desktop Theme Details - no leonidas there.
> >
> > Kevin - just where do I make this change?
>
> System Settings / Advanced / System: Login Manager / Theme

Now that's one I'd never noticed!  Thanks.  Now that jarring change of 
background has gone.

Anne

[Colin J Thomson]

On Sunday 28 June 2009 19:53:32 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 28 June 2009 19:12:31 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > Kevin's 'Change the theme' sounds reasonable, but where?  The
> > > logical place, to me, is in systemsettings > Appearance, but I
> > > don't see anything there that
> > > helps.  The Splash Screen is already leonidas.  Next stop,
> > > systemsettings
> > > > Advanced tab > Desktop Theme Details - no leonidas there.
> > >
> > > Kevin - just where do I make this change?
> >
> > System Settings / Advanced / System: Login Manager / Theme
>
> Now that's one I'd never noticed!  Thanks.  Now that jarring change
> of background has gone.

I take it then it asks for your password when accessing this from system 
settings ? Here is does not so I have to run "sudo kcmshell4 kdm" from a 
shell.

F11/kde-4.2.90

Colin

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 28 June 2009 21:01:16 Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
> On Sunday 28 June 2009 19:53:32 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 June 2009 19:12:31 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > Kevin's 'Change the theme' sounds reasonable, but where?  The
> > > > logical place, to me, is in systemsettings > Appearance, but I
> > > > don't see anything there that
> > > > helps.  The Splash Screen is already leonidas.  Next stop,
> > > > systemsettings
> > > > > Advanced tab > Desktop Theme Details - no leonidas there.
> > > >
> > > > Kevin - just where do I make this change?
> > >
> > > System Settings / Advanced / System: Login Manager / Theme
> >
> > Now that's one I'd never noticed!  Thanks.  Now that jarring change
> > of background has gone.
>
> I take it then it asks for your password when accessing this from system
> settings ? Here is does not so I have to run "sudo kcmshell4 kdm" from a
> shell.
>
> F11/kde-4.2.90

It does need root password.  With things like this I start systemsettings from 
a root konsole.

Anne

[Kevin Kofler]

Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
> I take it then it asks for your password when accessing this from system
> settings ?

Yes, that's what's expected to happen if you run it as non-root.
> Here is does not so I have to run "sudo kcmshell4 kdm" from a shell.
>
> F11/kde-4.2.90

Looks like our root password hack is broken in 4.2.90 then. Probably because
upstream has done some work on implementing it the proper way, using
PolicyKit.

Kevin Kofler

[Rex Dieter]

On 06/28/2009 05:42 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
> > I take it then it asks for your password when accessing this from system
> > settings ?
>
> Yes, that's what's expected to happen if you run it as non-root.
> > Here is does not so I have to run "sudo kcmshell4 kdm" from a shell.
> >
> > F11/kde-4.2.90
>
> Looks like our root password hack is broken in 4.2.90 then. Probably because
> upstream has done some work on implementing it the proper way, using
> PolicyKit.

Confirmed, I'll take a look.

-- Rex

[Rex Dieter]

On 06/28/2009 06:06 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 06/28/2009 05:42 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Looks like our root password hack is broken in 4.2.90 then. Probably because
> > upstream has done some work on implementing it the proper way, using
> > PolicyKit.
>
> Confirmed, I'll take a look.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508593

[Martin Kho]

> On Sunday 28 June 2009 17:27:04 Martin (KDE) wrote:
> > Hallo Anne
> >
> > Am Sonntag, 28. Juni 2009 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> > > Currently when I log in I get the solar backdrop.  How can I change
> > > this to leonidas?
> >
> > right klick on the background and select "settings" (those with the
> > litte tool as icon - I don't know the right name as I am on german
> > view. There it is "Einstellun> > Anne
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > fedora-kde mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde
> > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
>
> gen zum Erscheinungsbild"). There you can
> > change the background picture. But I missed the leonidas picture the
> > first time as well.
>
> Sure, but that changes the desktop background, which I already knew -
> although since the leonidas screens are just called 1024x600 I didn't
> notice them. Unfortunately, I'm still left with a Solar background to the
> login screen.
>
> Kevin's 'Change the theme' sounds reasonable, but where?  The logical
> place, to me, is in systemsettings > Appearance, but I don't see anything
> there that helps.  The Splash Screen is already leonidas.  Next stop,
> systemsettings > Advanced tab > Desktop Theme Details - no leonidas there.
>
> Kevin - just where do I make this change?
>
> Anne

Hi Anne,

Systemsettings > Advanced tab > Login Manager > Theme (tab 4)

Martin Kho