On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Joel Rees <joel.rees(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But I don't get a user list. Just the user name and password
fields,
which is not bad, and my family can probably get used to it, but it
doesn't really tell me what's happening.
Nosing around the web, I found the kdm docs,
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-workspace/kdm/kdm-files.html
and there's a UserList option in there. So I go edit
/etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc , change UserList to true and it ignores me. Must
be some file that overrides that in Fedora.
The Fedora custom theme doesn't have support for user lists, so that
option has no effect. Pick a theme that does (the "Oxygen" theme
installed by default does, for instance) and it should work. You
could also use the old-school greeter dialog instead, which also
supports user lists.
<snip>
The previous chapter describes KDE's GUI configuration tool,
which I
have not got, I suppose I should load that and see if I can get it to
change something for me.
Looks like kdm includes its own system settings module, but may not
have a dependency on the KDE system settings application. Make sure
"kdebase-runtime" is installed and then just run "kcmshell4 kdm".
-T.C.