From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lx6FO-0004P0-Nf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:14:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FEF6E02AB; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:14:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.251]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E844AE02AB for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:14:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so634158rvf.46 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:14:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ljk8bIcUkVpYcnLZUw7Z8bPB4KOp1klZHqkEZd9sg0g=; b=sZ47X65aBFOMoZHVnG84dif8q7ZWl4nRQAOIBGlobX58QemL8gHgaZBjf+dt1yjZ8k x8ngsYBv9iN+CUNAFyOFiBiZOrFWdHXtNcVNemCGebEVDoH52daMx+ZLXwSNaf8Nt3rA lsAab4YMIcHX1d6mxZcTRmGnx0q75GbWNM6G4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=JYZW3m/1q5Cgg115Zp13nb40nD61E4tM/gEOM/qRAGjcSThKv15iVLKYhmts8rqGML HMgY/xT6mtAQRLyeaI9GGzjg8rAE4rFumUU93WHj0fOYiu7tXH25QpWedb0KUpLCnHK8 dqV1VrVpJcrhOiA6VP/yo8C3uMylgHX07UnO4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.115.108.5 with SMTP id k5mr918035wam.90.1240521256369; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:14:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49F0D323.10502@wright.org> References: <49EEFDF6.5010009@wright.org> <58965d8a0904220755l4b388e96h256ad798feb939ed@mail.gmail.com> <49F0D323.10502@wright.org> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:14:16 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: d1e914bf1c916b58 Message-ID: <58965d8a0904231414w77a02bdfl4ad40fa2c2cbe83d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9ec41ba4-2e5e-437c-ad0b-78cffc91ff46 X-Archives-Hash: 2aca854d478c988371e045c0f6121161 On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Roy Wright wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright 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.