My login screen needs some flare.

jesterspet · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 3:07 am Post subject: My login screen needs some flare.

Anyone know how to change the color of the KDM login screen? I am so tired of grey.
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CheshireCat · Guru Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 572

I know the "Login Manager" control panel can be used to change the background image/pattern of the login screen, as well as the widget style used by the greeter. I think you can also use it to change the color scheme used by the greeter, but I'm not certain about that.

jesterspet · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 3:53 am Post subject:

Yeah...the background, widgets, color scheme can be altered this way, but the main window of KDM still stays that very dull grey.

That is what I want to change.
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randoguy · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 5:45 am Post subject:

thats why i use gdm

and i aint even a gnome user

altho being part of gnome it has quite a dep list as i realised from doing a emerge -pve gdm.

jesterspet · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 12:41 am Post subject:

After parusing the xdm documentation & my local files related to X, I thought that I had found what I had been looking for in the /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources file, but even after editing this file and restarting xdm (kdm is wrapped in it) and Xfree my login screen is still that nasty grey.

Anyone have any clue where to look :?:

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soaringcondor · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 103

Did you try changing the color scheme of the style? You can create a custom one if need be and then change the application background to the color you want.

In theory.