Login Screen Not Changing

rgupta52 · May 2, 2011, 9:03pm

Hi Guys,

I am running opensuse 11.4 on my Lenovo G450. The probem is that the login theme is not changing. Its the same default one. I am sure that I am following the way it should be to assign the new theme but no result. What could it be?

Lord_Emsworth · May 2, 2011, 9:25pm

Here is an older thread which may be helpful:
change the kdm login screen

DenverD · May 2, 2011, 9:30pm

On 05/02/2011 09:06 PM, rgupta52 wrote:
>
> I am running opensuse 11.4 on my Lenovo G450. The probem is that the
> login theme is not changing. Its the same default one. I am sure that I
> am following the way it should be to assign the new theme but no result.
> What could it be?
>

well, since no one on the forum was standing behind you when you did
what you did that gave no results, then i don’t think anyone would have
a clue what went wrong…

did you get an error message?

maybe you could start by telling us what desktop environment you use,
and if you use GDM or KDM…and, be sure and tell us if you use GDM to
boot to KDE, or KDM to boot to GNOME, or what do you use to boot to LXDE
or Xfce or . . .

and, then tell us exactly how you went about changing the theme, or give
us the URL to the how-to you followed?

then, we might have a shot at figuring out what went wrong…maybe…

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CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 + Thunderbird3.1.8 via NNTP]
HACK Everything → http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5b4CCe9pS8&NR=1

DenverD · May 2, 2011, 9:52pm

On 05/02/2011 09:36 PM, Lord Emsworth wrote:
>
> Here is an older thread which may be helpful:
> ‘change the kdm login screen’
>

hmmmm, how do you know he is running kdm?

–
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 + Thunderbird3.1.8 via NNTP]
HACK Everything → http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5b4CCe9pS8&NR=1

Lord_Emsworth · May 2, 2011, 10:11pm

I don’t.

rgupta52 · May 2, 2011, 11:38pm

Hi DenverD,

Thanks for your query. Here it is-

“did you get an error message?” - No.

I use KDM to boot to KDE I think. The desktop environment is KDE for sure.

I simply followed the procedure listed below-

Clicked on Kickoff Application Launcher and went to “Configure Desktop”
Under System Administration, I clicked on “Login Screen”
Under General Tab, the option “Use themed greeter” is highlighted with default values for GUI_Style and Color_Scheme
I went to Theme Tab and selected suse-elegant theme. (which has been downloaded and Installed by clicking “Install_new_theme”
Clicked on Apply, provided administrative password and thats all. It accepted and done.

But there is no suse_elegant screen at the time of login.

DenverD · May 3, 2011, 1:08pm

On 05/03/2011 12:06 AM, rgupta52 wrote:
>
> 4. I went to Theme Tab and selected suse-elegant theme. (which has been
> downloaded and Installed by clicking “Install_new_theme”

ok, it certainly sounds like you did everything right…why not try to
select one of the pre-installed themes, say oxygen and see if your login
theme changes then…if so, then spin it back to “suse-elegant theme”
and see how that works then…

oh no! i just thought: what if the “default” is “suse-elegant” then
you did change you made worked, but it just changed to what it already
was!!!

no, of course i have not gone to see what “suse-elegant” should look
like or what suse-default does looks like [is either one that ugly
BROKEN looking background (what WERE they thinking?)]

–
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 + Thunderbird3.1.8 via NNTP]
HACK Everything → http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5b4CCe9pS8&NR=1

Lord_Emsworth · May 3, 2011, 3:43pm

shakes head

change the kdm login screen

(Or does this not work?)

rgupta52 · May 3, 2011, 5:51pm

No DenverD, none of the pre-installed theme is working instead of the default ones.

rgupta52 · May 3, 2011, 6:00pm

Hey dude! Thanks for the trick.

I am able to change the login theme now.

rgupta52 · May 3, 2011, 6:03pm

Thanks to all too for suggestions and advices. I am happy now to see the suse-elegant login theme on my laptop. It looks superb.

momashi · September 6, 2011, 3:56am

Well rgupta52, I don’t know what you were doing to try to change your login screen before trying the KDM login screen manager but I was using it from the start and it never worked for me on openSUSE 11.4… Luckily for anyone else in my situation, I’ve figured out what was going on. Something is wrong with the KDM login manager or SUSE’s implementation of it in this distro (at least on my set up which is SUSE 11.4 with KDE upgraded to 4.7 directly from KDE’s Repos). It just doesn’t seem to want to tell the system that you’ve selected a new login theme.

WORKAROUND

[Precautions]

*) have a bootable CD/DVD handy in case you mess up, can’t log in and need to undo this.

*) if you are a newbie and don’t know what you are doing, be very careful with what I am going to tell you - especially about using dolphin as sudo.

[the actual Workaround]

install the theme you want to use in KDM Login Manager, close it.
you need to do the rest as sudo, so open your terminal and run dolphin from it as sudo with the following command:

> sudo dolphin

with your new and great powers, navigate to:

/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/

rename the “SUSE” theme directory to SUSE_backup
make a link out of one of the other themes you’ve already installed. Call that link “SUSE” to trick your system into thinking that it’s the Vanilla Login theme that it so obstinately wants you to use.
make sure the permissions and ownerships of the theme directory you are linking is the same as that which you are substituting.
boom your done!
if anything goes wrong and you can’t log in again, boot with DVD, open dolphin as sudo and undo what you’ve done by deleting the “SUSE” link and rename “SUSE_backup” to “SUSE”