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[jaraeez]

Hey,

 

Not a big deal but if someone knows how then cool. I have dual monitors running in seperate desktops. Once the system boots to the login screen the other screen is just plain blue. My login screen is black in theme (KDM Theme Manager) & I was wondering if there was a way to change the colour (UK spelling! lol) of the initial screens to black (for a more consistant look). So that once the login screen appears the other screen will be black in colour.. make sense?

 

ps I've looked in the /home/user/.kde/share/config folder & played around with kdeglobals, kdesktoprc, kdesktop-screen-1rc, but no help

 

cheers

[arctic]

It is possible to switch it from blue to black. IIRC then there was a file in /etc/X11 or /etc/sysconfig that defined it. I will boot my lappy tomorrow and search for the file.

 

You can also take a look at the KDM config. Check if there is an option to use a non-themed, rather simple login-screen. There you might be able to change the backgorund-colour, too. I know that this option exists in gdm. Not sure about kdm though.

[arctic]

I think I found it. It is in the /etc/X11/xinit script.

# Mandriva Linux default background
if [ "`whoami`" = root ]; then
xsetroot -solid "#B20003"
IS_ROOT=1
else
IS_ROOT=
# Load the color only when not called from gdm/kdm
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
xsetroot -solid "#21449C"
fi
fi

xsetroot -cursor_name watch

Change the colorcode to #000000 for a black background. Hope that works.

[jaraeez]

Cheers for that.. unfortunately it did'nt work for me. First off I only had the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc script

#!/bin/sh
# (c) 2000-2002 MandrakeSoft
# $Id: xinitrc-xinitrc,v 1.2 2002/09/10 05:53:43 flepied Exp $

# Set a background here because it's not done anymore
# in Xsesion for non root users
if [ "`whoami`" != root ]; then
xsetroot -solid "#000000"
fi

exec /etc/X11/Xsession $*

 

& as you can see I changed the colour to #000000 then rebooted but still had the blue :(

[arctic]

Uh... oh... then I will have to take a look again later today... :unsure: