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I've recently done a fresh install of my favourite distro, sidux which currently has kde 4.3.4

I found a new wallpaper on the sidux forums which is a variant of the official one that I much prefer.

I wanted to keep the original 'feel' but with the new background for both kdm and ksplash and the desktop. Easy enough for the desktop.

To achieve the change for kdm and ksplash I logged into a terminal as root, made copies of the original backgrounds, then overwrote them with the new background.

The change worked for kdm but not for ksplash. It still displays the original background.

It has been suggested that Ksplash may not have 'detected' the widescreen monitor correctly, (an odd suggestion).

However to cover all bases I replaced the background in the ksplash theme folders for the other two resolutions also.

Still no change.

Any suggestions as to what may be the cause, and how to rectify it?

Edit: as per bcooksley of the offical kde forums the answer was this,

"KSplash does have a cache I believe.

Try removing /var/tmp/kdecache-$user/ outside of KDE."

Although I didn't feel that it would be necessary to remove the entire cache contents, so just removed the contents of



As for doing the task outside of kde, my distro of choice recommends doing 'dist-upgrades' in 'init 3' anyway.

So I cleared the cache while performing my most recent 'dist-upgrade'.

Thanks to all who dropped in to have a look, to see if they could offer any advice.

Cheers.