KDM autologin background

gwolf · Guru Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 374 Location: Estonia

Hello!

I am using KDE 3.4.1 and kdm as display manager and I have a following annoying problem, that if autologin is enabled, then KDE starts up with gray background and I haven't managed to change it. If I disable autologin, and log in through kdm login window, the background picture shows up ok. And iirc it also did work ok with KDE 3.3.2.

I think the issue is not related to the -br startup option of X server, since the gray background is there all the time when KDE splash screen is in foreground, and the -br option is set in kdmrc anyway.

And I think it is not a user rights problem, since I chose arbitrary wallpaper from /usr/kde/3.4/share/wallpapers, and also the problem does not occur when autologin is disabled.

I remember, there was a thread describing the same problem just after KDE 3.4 came out, but I cannot find this thread anymore (and it was unsolved at this time anyway)

Is anyone else (still) experiencing the same problem?
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irondog · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:57 am Post subject:

Yeah, that ugly gray color really sucks. -br doesn't work for me either.
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irondog · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:34 am Post subject:

I found it myself:

/usr/kde/3.4/bin/startkde

gwolf · Guru Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 374 Location: Estonia

Thanks for the tip! ;-)

At the moment I "solved" this by using a fullscreen ksplash

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