On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Roy Wright <r...@wright.org> wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright <r...@wright.org> wrote: > But now when KDM start I get half a >>> screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right >>> half of the right monitor. >> >> KDM does the same for me on a wide-screen monitor. In fact it could be >> a security risk because after logging out of KDE, random pieces of >> screen from the last session sometimes show up on the garbage parts on >> the sides, including potentially sensitive information. It does not >> appear to support any kind of screen size detection. What you need to >> do is find (or make) a theme that is the same size/aspect ratio as >> your display setup and then it'll be okay. It's trying to use a 4:3 >> theme on a 8:3 or 16:9 or whatever and apparently the KDM people >> haven't gotten around to dealing with that yet. > > For now, I simply edited kdmrc and set UseTheme to false. > > Still haven't figured out how to use System Settings, Advanced, Login > Manager. Can't get anything to be enabled for editing. I've tried: > > * chmod -R 755 the config directories (/usr/share/config & > /usr/kde/4.2/share/config) > > * reset the config files with: genkdmconf --no-old > > The ownership of the conf files is root:root, so am thinking the > permissions should be 775, but I've found multiple sources that state > the perms should be 755, which would make since if I had an Admin button > like they refer to. Maybe a sudo setup or something...
KDE4 system settings has no support for allowing you to enter Administrator mode from system settings, but some distros have their own patch to enable this. I think it is planned to be added in KDE 4.4 officially. For now you can open a "run" dialog and type "kdesu systemsettings" to have the admin options enabled for editing.
