Re: Shouldn't we abandon SUSE?

Vahis wrote:
houghi wrote:
David Bolt wrote:
I've recently tried Mandriva 2007. I wasn't impressed with it at all. It
didn't feel right, I didn't like the method of adding packages and, as a
consequence, rapidly replaced it.

So you did not like to go from one distribution to another because 'it
did not feel right'. Now you can imagine how people feel when they not
just want to change distributions, but their complete OS.

I would imagine that it is more then just 'it does not feel right'.

I would think that when one is planning to move to another OS one
is mentally more prepared to accept that a lot will change.

I would think that as well. Reading this group and talking with people
has shown me that that is not the case.

If somebody is watching, extra geek points can be obtained by
watching the boot messages wise-looking and with some eye-brow
moving and a couple of hmmm...s :)

Geekpoints are taken away if you need to boot. More are taken away if
you need the bootmessage *during* the boot.

But I'd like not to have the list of users visible. I installed
also the Gnome Beta 2 on VMware and there you have no list, you
need to know the username. I'd like that.

How is that done when you boot KDE?

Well, you use Gdm instead of Kdm. YaST, System. /etc/sysconfig Editor,
Desktop, Display Manager, DISPLAYMANAGER. You can select between kdm,
xdm, gdm, wdm and console.

Extra themes can be found here for gdm:
http://art.gnome.org/themes/gdm_greeter/

Some examples, Those can be used as basis for your own theme as well:
http://art.gnome.org/themes/gdm_greeter/1211
http://art.gnome.org/themes/gdm_greeter/1229
http://art.gnome.org/themes/gdm_greeter/543
http://art.gnome.org/themes/gdm_greeter/89

However what I like with kdm is that my login os already filled out and
the cursor is already in the password place. Well, obviously it is not
THAT hard to turn off certain

kcontrol (Control Center), Login Manager, Administrator Mode, Users.
I am too lazy to check it out, because I do not want to log out, but if
you change the 'Below 500' to 65000, all users are system users and need
to be specified if you want to see them.

This has nothing to do with the 'Convinience' tab where I have 'houghi'
specified and crossed 'Focus password.

houghi
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