Re: [kde-linux] kdm login default user after x seconds

On Sunday 26 November 2006 19:22, Daniel L. McGrew wrote:
I've always used KDE 3+... by default I've used the gnome manager (gdm)
with it... sorry, I just didn't know any better... lol...
anyway, I've switched, so that both socks match... I'm using KDM with
KDE... however, gdm had a very nice feature... I could set it to
automatically logon a specific user after a certain period of time, say
30secs... now, that I've switched to KDM, that feature is not available...
at least, I can't find it...

If anyone knows where to find this in the gui or the name of the file I
need to edit to get this to happen again, I would really appreciate it...

Since I've switched from gdm to kdm, I think that the applicable directory
has changed... from /etc/gdm to etc/kde3/kdm... so, our choice of files, I
think, are in the /etc/kde3 directory (although I don't see any files that
would affect this feature in this directory... possibly /etc/kde3/kde
directory... possibly files are kdm.options or kdmrc

Questions;
1. Which file would do this for me?
a. Where is it located?
b. What do I put into the file?

From what I recall, Oswald has yet to implement this feature (or may have
completely vetoed anything like it in KDM for security reasons....)

2. Where is the kdm bin file?
a. I've looked in;
i. bin
ii. /usr/bin

If you are using a RH based distro, you'll find kdm and kdmgreeter
in /usr/bin, If you are on Slackware or SuSE, you'll find them
in /opt/kde3/bin. Sorry I can't help with Debian as I personally can't
stomach that distro long enough to learn it's peculiarities...

It's AWOL...
Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can provide...
Most sincerely,
Dan

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