In Fedora Core 5 (just clean install from the original distro without updates) I cannot confiigure the login screen of KDE so that it would have the standard KDE look (with user faces, clock/KDE logo etc.). Changing the corresponding options in the KDE configuration screen has no effect - I still have a bluish screen with the fedora logo and two input fields for the user name and password.
However, if I change the language, it IS reflected in the login screen. If I change the background image, it blinks for a moment and then gets replaced by the same fedora logo image. I made sure that my login manager is kdm. The two binaries running which seem to control the login screen are /usr/bin/kdm and /usr/bin/kdm_greet.
It seems the Fedora team modified kdm_greet so that it just ignores most of the standard KDM options. I could not find any documentation on this in the Fedora release files etc. Too bad. I don't understand why they cut the standard KDM functionality and did not leave the user any choice... Or am I mistaken? Is there any way to get back the standard KDE login screen behaviour/look? BTW, this Fedora KDM version does NOT allow the root user to log in - I can understand this on a big system (yet there should be a possibility for root to change this), but it is too inconvenient on my laptop...
Thanks,
Igor
This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "igor_a" (Apr 24th 2006, 11:31am)