This SHOULD be simple

[jaugen]

All I want to do is keep the Horos KDM theme, but change the background to what I use on my desktop, grub, and splash screen. So far I haven't been able to get it to work.

Can anyone give me a hint.

Thanks.

[OneLine]

Re: This SHOULD be simple

KDM Greeter background

Topic: Customizing Kubuntu
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...mizing-Kubuntu

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K > Applications > Help
Help > Control Center Modules > Login Screen


The horos.xml (/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/horos/) has:

	<item type="pixmap" id="background" background="true">
		<normal wallpaper="Horos" scalemode="crop"/>
		<pos x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%"/>
	</item>

You could edit the original horos theme or copy the /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/horos/ -> /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/my-wallpaper/

Here the my-wallpaper theme has my-wallpaper.xml:

	<item type="pixmap" id="background" background="true">
		<normal file="my-wallpaper.png" scalemode="crop"/>
		<pos x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%"/>
	</item>

---Edit on---

The difference: wallpaper="Horos" replaced with the file="my-wallpaper.png"

---Edit off---

The my-wallpaper.png is a symlink to the plymouth background:

:~$ ls -l /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/my-wallpaper/
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   49 2011-10-19 23:05 my-wallpaper.png -> /lib/plymouth/themes/my-plymouth/my-wallpaper.png
...

Topic: My Plymouth theme
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...Plymouth-theme