jaraeez Posted March 9, 2007 Report Share Posted March 9, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted March 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 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 :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 Uh... oh... then I will have to take a look again later today... :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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