Re: [opensuse] 11.3 - switch from gdm to kdm, kdm won't display - only xdm??

On Friday 23 July 2010 21:10:35 David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,

Changing from gdm to kdm, I modified the displaymanager settings in
sysconfig and set the displaymanager to kdm and the theme to a theme name
in /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes as follows:

14:59 zephyr:~> noc /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_STARTS_XSERVER="yes"
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=""
DISPLAYMANAGER_PASSWORD_LESS_LOGIN="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_AD_INTEGRATION="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN="auto"
DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_VGA=""
DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_auto="1024x768_60 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768
769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync"
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER="Xorg"
KDM_USERS=""
KDM_GREETSTRING=""
DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME="lzfy-kde4"
DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_LOCALARGS=""

14:59 zephyr:~> noc /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager
DEFAULT_WM="gnome"
INSTALL_DESKTOP_EXTENSIONS="yes"
X_MOUSE_CURSOR="DMZ"
KDE_USE_IPV6="yes"
KDE_BUILD_GLOBAL_SYCOCA="initial"
KDE_USE_IDN="yes"

But regardless of what I set the theme to, all I ever get is that
generic
square xdm login with the round clock above the username/password fields.
How do I get kdm going again? What else to check?

Not sure if this helps but i did the following on my 11.2 system

cat /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager | grep DISPLAYMA
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm4"
DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="no"
# that root can never login if DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN is "auto" and
DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_STARTS_XSERVER="yes"
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=""
# DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN is empty.
DISPLAYMANAGER_PASSWORD_LESS_LOGIN="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_AD_INTEGRATION="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN="auto"
# If set to "auto", DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_auto is used on laptops, and
# DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_auto), the mode is defined and set.
DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_VGA=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_DVI_I=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_DVI_D=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_DVI_A=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_Compsite=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_S_Video=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_Component=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_LFP=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_Proprietary=""
# Mode to use for laptops for DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_* on laptops only,
DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_auto="1024x768_60 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769
772 795 -HSync +Vsync"
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER=Xorg
DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_LOCALARGS=""
DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME="ethais"

cat /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager | grep DEFAULT_WM
DEFAULT_WM="startkde"

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