The K Desktop Environment

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1. KDM Configuration

1.1 Appearance

From this page you can change the visual appearance of KDM.

The greeting string is the title of the login screen. If the string contains the word HOSTNAME it will be translated to the domainless name of the machine KDM is installed on.

KDM logo is the image which will be shown on the login window. If you do not specify a logo the default $(KDEDIR)/share/apps/kdm/pics/kdelogo.xpm will be displayed.

To change the logo you can:

As the style of the user interface is selected on a per user basis you can also select which style should be used initially by KDM. You can choose between Motif or Windows style.

1.2 Font

From this page you can change the fonts used in the login window. You can select three different font styles from the combo-box. When you click on the "Change font" button a dialog appears from which you can select a new font.

1.3 Background

Here you can change the desktop background which will be displayed when a user logs in. You can have a single color or an image as a background. If you have an image as background and select center the selected background color will be used around the image if it isn't large enough to cover the entire desktop.

To change the default background color simply click on the color botton and select a new color.

To select a new background image you can either select an image from the drop-down list or select "Browse..." and select an image file from a file selector.

The image can be displayed in three different ways:

1.4 Sessions

Shutdown privileges

Choose who are allowed to shut down:

Shutdown commands

Define the commands to shut down or restart the computer. The shutdown command defaults to:

/sbin/shutdown

The restart command defaults to:

/sbin/reboot

Session types

Define which session types should be accessable from the login window. If you don't know what this meens have a look at /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession or whereever your xdm setup files are and look at the xdm man pages in the SESSION PROGRAM section

1.5 Users

From here you can change the way users are represented in the login window.

Images

Every user on the system is represented by a image. The image for the user is kept in a file called $(KDEDIR)/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/$(USER).xpm. If the user doesn't have such a file the file $(KDEDIR)/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/default.xpm will be used instead. To assign a new image to a user just select the user in one of the listboxes and either drop an imagefile on the image button to the right or click on the image button and select a new image from the image selector.

If no user is currently selected you will be asked if you want to change the default image.

The replacement is performed by a KFM process so if the imagefile allready exists you will be prompted by KFM if you want to replace it. If you confirm the image will be replaced - you will NOT have to press the "Apply" button.

Select users

If you choose not to show users, the users will have to write their user name at the login window. If you choose to show users they can simply click on an icon representing themself, enter their password an click "Go".

The pages contains three listboxes. The large listbox on the left shows all the users on the system which we may presume could be a genuine user. The top rightmost listbox shows the slected users and the bottom rightmost listbox shows the users we don't want displayed in the login window. To move a user from one listbox to another you click on the username in the listbox and selects ">>" to move the user from the leftmost box the the rightmost box - or "<<" to move the user from the rightmost box to the leftmost box.

The users to show can be selected in two ways:

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