default ugly KDM login screen back [Solved]

[thenthenio]

After the upgrade of the 341 packages (the whole KDE suite).the Sabayon KDM login screen was replaced by the ugly KDM one...
I think it is due to a wrong upgrade of some KDM related package.

Bye.
Mauro

[Fitzcarraldo]

I never did find out how to get the original SL login 'theme' back after I upgraded to KDE 3.5.9 some time ago. I can, of course, use K Menu > Control Centre > System Administration > Login Manager to replace the KDM logo with the SL logo, and change the GUI style and colour scheme of the pop-up login window, but I rather hoped SL would 'theme' this log-in window automatically.

The following two threads document all the known packages that affect the SL theme: [HOWTO]: Avoid the new blue theme in SL L3 updates and How to install some splash screens that were not updated?

If anyone knows of any packages not covered in those two threads then please post.

[sjieke]

I also spent more than an hour to fix this as I didn't know where to look, but I found it
To fix this you need to edit the file '/usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/kdmrc'
I think it got overwritten during the upgrade and isn't included in the protected config files.
What you need to change in that file is the following:
1) Look for the section starting with

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[X-*-Greeter]

2) Look for the theme setting and check that it is pointed to the correct one, I needed to edit it to point to the sabayon one.

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Theme=/usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kdm/themes/SabayonOpenFuture/

3) For me the UseTheme setting was missing and this defaults to false, so add it and set it to true

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Theme=/usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kdm/themes/SabayonOpenFuture/
UseBackground=true
UseTheme=true

This should give you the default sabayon login back.

For the more GUI oriented people, you can also install the package 'kde-misc/kdmtheme'. This is a module for the KDE Control Center and adds an option under System Administration called 'KDM Theme Manager'

[chsims1]

Thanks sjieke, that was really beginning to annoy me

[thenthenio]

Thank you sjieke, that worked for me too!
Mauro

[joost]

I didn't have the issue at all.
I want to note that i cleanly installed KDE 3.5.10 on a POD version.

[sjieke]

Doesn't the POD version use gdm instead of kdm?

[joost]

ah yes.

[doom0r]

Thank you!

kdmrc really should be protected