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KDM Login manager wallpapers

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Just tinkering with KDM and having some trouble with theming. I've downloaded the beatiful zxcity theme and set it as my theme for the KDM login, problem is the wallpaper switches back during load.

Just to simplify that, we have 3 stages to our login.

Problem

Startup machine, goes through the motions,login screen presented with theme.

KDE loading screen pops up and goes through the 5 icons (hard-drive, network, KDE symbol, etc..)

KDE desktop presented

Question

I'm trying to get a wallpaper across all 3 of these stages.
To do this I need to:

Set my KDM theme (done)

????

Set the KDE wallpaper(done)

At stage 2 The wallpaper is reverting back to the default grey stripes thing. Ugly as sin.

Could someone tell me where that image is being called from so I can change it at stage 2?

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answered 1 Year ago admin · Accepted Answer

Splash

I think that you are trying to change the KDE splash background.

The Kubuntu 12.04 splashes: Grub "splash" -> Plymouth -> Login Screen (KDM theme) > KDE splash (KSplashX/KSplashQML)

KSplashX

The KSplashX REDAME is explaining the splash syntax: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-workspace/repository/revisions/master/entry/ksplash/ksplashx/README

The default KSplash themes are: /usr/share/kde4/apps/ksplash/Themes/.

If you download and install new themes through the "Get New Themes, KDE system Settings > Workspace Appearance > Splash Screen, they are installed to the ~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/.

KSplashQML

The KSplashQML is a new and shiny:

http://aseigo.blogspot.fi/2011/11/plasma-workspaces-48.html:

Right now, we do not have documentation on Techbase for this new
addition but if one looks in kde-workspace/ksplash/ksplashqml/themes
it becomes very apparent.

More: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?56645-KSplashQML-Themes

Note

The KDE is caching things to the /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER/. Sometimes the KDE is using the cached picture instead of the changed splash backgrounds. The cached data can be removed: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=45909 .