Login Manager Theme

sma · #1 12th November 2008, 04:48 PM

Hi All,

How can I change the login manager theme in FC10 ? I have been able to change the theme for desktop menu items etc via the appearance applet and clicking on install theme, but cannot understand GDM ? Some site says download themes for GDM ?

I am a bit confused, is it GDM or Login Manager ?
Also, if i want to login via KDE ; I didn't see any option on the login prompt to select either Gnome or KDE ?

Thanks and Regards

sma · #2 12th November 2008, 04:53 PM

I can't see the option 'login manager' any where in the menus ; I am using FC10 preview version.

please help

thanks

popatopalous · #3 12th November 2008, 10:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sma

I can't see the option 'login manager' any where in the menus ; I am using FC10 preview version.

please help

thanks

I think there is no login manager in Fedora 10/Gnome currently. May be upstream in latest version of Gnome.

Code:

# nano /etc/X11/prefdm

Edit the line:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin

# We need to source this so that the login screens get translated
[ -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n ] && . /etc/sysconfig/i18n

# Run preferred X display manager
quit_arg=
preferred=

to, in my case because I use KDE and wanted kdm:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin

# We need to source this so that the login screens get translated
[ -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n ] && . /etc/sysconfig/i18n

# Run preferred X display manager
quit_arg=
preferred=/usr/bin/kdm

Worked here. Also fore KDE users to set 'AutoLoginEnable=true' and 'AutoLogin User=me' and add 'AutoLoginAgain=true' and 'AutoLoginDelay=10' edit '/usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc'.

Hope this helps...

sma · #4 16th November 2008, 06:35 PM

I tried what you advised but it didn't gave me any option neither it booted into KDE ; looks like I need to wait for the final FC10

Thanks for the tip

popatopalous · #5 16th November 2008, 07:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sma

I tried what you advised but it didn't gave me any option neither it booted into KDE ; looks like I need to wait for the final FC10

Thanks for the tip

Do you have KDE installed? Changing a file as I demonstrated won't matter if you don't have kdm installed. If your loginscreen doesn't offer the option to switch to KDE then you probably don't have it installed.