I have rebooted.
Now the login screen is even more horrible (a gray thing) but I do not really care, it has changed something: that’s nice. I have thought now I just need to install more themes …
My problem is tat STILL I do not have ANY “Login Manager” module in systemsettings AT ALL, not even gray !
What should I do?
Look I would probably know how to do it “manually” (download & unpack the theme, set the theme name in yast2 /etc/sysconfig Editor DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME) but I do not want to. I want to use the graphical KDE module!
On 03/22/2011 04:06 PM, one71 wrote:
>
> I have just upgraded from suse 11.0 (kde3) to opensuse 11.4 (kde4).
>
i wonder how you upgraded…i wonder because as far as i know there
is no supported upgrade path from 11.0 to 11.4 without stepping from
through .1, .2, and .3
so any ‘upgrade’ which didn’t include a format and install of the
basic system can probably expect all kinds of weird stuff to try to
over come…
> What should I do?
i can’t say what you should do now, what i would have done is backup
all data and do a clean format install of 11.4, and then copy data
into the new install…at least that is how i got from 10.3 to 11.3
about a month ago, and so far my 11.3 has been smooth and, knock on
wood, mostly trouble free …
well, from where you are now i guess it is still probably best and
easiest to fresh format/install and then restore data…
the good news is that (most likely) 11.4 to the next should be an easy
step…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.1.8, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
There is no need to login as root. There is not even a need to run sytemsettings with root priviliges here.
The login manager is called Login Screen. (Maybe, just maybe you have been looking for the wrong thing.) With the command ‘kcmshell4 kdm’ you can directly start it either from Konsole or this Alt+F2 thing. If that command fails to bring up the login manager window, then I guess that you don’t have it installed for whatever reason.
If you are using KDE, simply start typing ‘log …’ in Search and it will appear. It is one of a number of modules whose link to System settings appears to have been missed in KDE4.6.
I did the upgrade without any problem and a part of really few minor thing everything looks working perfectly, so I am for sure not going to format and start over …
sure I know that I do not need to be logged in as root, I just wanted to avoid the question
If I type “screen” in the search I get only
windows decorations
cursor theme
desktop theme
splash screen
virtual desktops
screen edges
workspace
size & orientation
screen saver
gamma
multiple monitors
So nothing to do with the login manager I guess
If I type “log” in search I get only
account details module
sharing module
startup & shutdown module
[LIST]
sutostart
service manager
session management
So again nothing to do with the login manager I guess
[/LIST]
What comes closer to the degugging of my problem is the suggestion:
command “kcmshell4 kdm”.
linux-ocvj:~ # kcmshell4 kdm
Could not find module ‘kdm’. See kcmshell4 --list for the full list of modules.
Great. But mind, the themed mode (checkbox: ‘Use themed greeter’) of the Login Manager does not seem to work. You’ll have to use YaST for that. The non-themed mode of the Login Manager does work though.
without changing anything in the “Login Screen” & with the /etc/sysconfig DISPLAYMANAGER_KDE_THEME variable empty I get the openSUSE (nice) branding login screen (after a reboot)
I manage to use the “Login Screen” module to download & istall new themes and I get them listed up
But if I try to change the login theme via the “Login Screen” still it does not work.
What I have to do is anyway:
go in the “Login Screen”
choose one theme which I like
go in yast2 /etc/sysconfig Editor
enter manually in the DISPLAYMANAGER_KDE_THEME the name of the theme I want to use
reboot
This is not really disturbing me … anyway I wanted to report it because I find this quite buggy …
As now experience shows there could be useful kde modules which are not installed … out of some reason and the package name is not “kde-like”.
The search for KDE in yast (including the description) brings obviously a ton of things …
Is there a way to list **ALL **(installed and not installed) kde4 modules? (a command or an intelligent search filter)
> This is not really disturbing me … anyway I wanted to report it
> because I find this quite buggy …
>
we are a support forum of enthusiasts and volunteers …
We are not a packaging nor a development forum.
If one wishes to reach the packagers or developers of openSUSE then
the place(s) to do so are clearly marked in the Communications wiki
<http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels>…those
places are the mailing list, and the IRC freenode chat channels such
as #opensuse-factory. The openSUSE forums is not the place.
note: i stole most of the above words from another user here…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.1.8, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
