kdm login background

[John L Fjellstad]

Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:

> O. Sinclair wrote:
>
>> 
>> The Kubuntu team has set up a system where in
>> /etc/kde3/kdm/backgroundrc
>> this setting
>> Wallpaper=default_blue.jpg
>> will enable kdm startup script to read /etc/default/kdm.d/
>
> That doesn't make sense -  it isn't looking at /etc/default/kdm.d/ from that
> snippet, and anyway, my /etc/default/kdm.d/ only contains 10_desktop-base,
> and everything's commented out.

Did you check /etc/init.d/kdm?  /etc/init.d/kdm will call
/etc/default/kdm.d iff Theme=@@@ToBeReplacedByDesktopBase@@@
and Wallpaper=default_blue.jpg

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John L. Fjellstad
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