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(Contributed by Anders Lund, edited)
"Did you ever try to get a wallpaper on the login screen
using KDE control center with no success? Here's why and how to do it!
"First, you tried using the KDE Control Center ->
system -> login manager -> background module with no success - even
though you figured out that being root for this task would be nice - and
then read the documentation for the KDE control center that tells you how
to use this module.
Here's why it doesn't work: The X login stuff is defined in the file '/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0'.
If you read the file, you will see that the command for running 'kdmdesktop'
has been dropped "because of kdedesktop issues". And truly, if you re-enable
'kdmdesktop', it will display colors but no background. It doesn't work.
"However, you can use a good old X program to get a
wallpaper: 'xli', often also used by the command 'xsetbg'. 'Xli' has a rich
set of options and a nifty interactive help function, issue xli -help
to get interactive help. 'Xli' also has a man page, man xli.
"Here's a command to set the file '/home/anders/images/cow.jpg'
as the login screen wallpaper, stretched to fit the screen:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xli -onroot -fillscreen /home/anders/images/cow.jpg
"Add a similar command to 'Xsetup_0' after the 'kdmdesktop'
line and you are set."
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(Contributed by Civileme)
Problem: you may encounter RPM and menu problems after
using MandrakeUpdate to update KDE to 2.0.1.
Fix: As 'root', run these commands on a terminal
updatedb
rpm --rebuilddb
update-menus
Restart X.
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KDE 2.x introduced a new sound server architecture,
'artsd', which might provoke quite some problems with non-artsd applications
like 'xmms'.
Please refer to the 'non-aRts applications' section of the aRts sound server
FAQ for solving these problems. Ignore the 'general infos' section, since
it is not applicable to ML and gives some rather dubious advice.
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Using LiveUpdate with the Offcial ML 7.2 Update CD,
to which some users of the boxed versions are entitled, might fail due to
conflicting dependencies.
Put the Update CD into your CD drive and issue these commands (as 'root'):
unset DISPLAY
cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install
./live_install2
This will start the update process in text mode and
should work.
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