Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Roy Wright <roy@wright.org> wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright <roy@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.