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rshadow
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 Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:28 am Post subject: GDM troubles [SOLVED -- Almost] |
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Recently I decided to try out GDM and a graphical login manager. GDM works fine using the default themes, however whenever I try to install a new theme it always has an error.
I'm using Gnome 2.8 btw and this is the error I always get
Can't open file /usr/share/gdm/themes/themename/themename.xml (where themename is the name of the actual theme) .. The files exist.. I even tried to add world rwx permissions.. no go.
Any ideas?
Edit: I got GDM themes working correctly again.. it just took downgrading to Gnome 2.6
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baeksu
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Can you edit the file as root? Usually, afair, init scripts like gdm do not like being changed by non-root users. Maybe you should try to install the themes when being root?
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apache
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Have you tried this only with one theme or did the error appear also with other themes? |
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rshadow
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:30 am Post subject: |
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| Well I did install them as root, and it happens on multiple themes.. however the default themes installed with Gentoo work fine... Only new themes that I download from gnome-look.org (or any site for that matter) do not work. Is there a breakage between 2.6 and 2.8 of Gnome with GDM? |
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