KDM

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Introduction

KDM (KDE Display Manager) is the login manager of KDE. It supports themes, auto-logging, session type choice, etc.

Installation

See Add a login manager for installation instructions.

Configuration

KDM can be configured from the KDE System Settings program but you need to run it as root:

  • in KDEMod it will automatically ask you the root password
  • in KDE you can use kdesu:
$ kdesu systemsettings

Themes creation

Themes files are in /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes.

The theme format is the same one as GDM, a documentation can be found here: Detailed Description of Theme XML format.

Troubleshooting

Keyboard maps

KDM depends on Xorg for keyboard input so if you don't have the good keymap check your xorg.conf file.

See the Xorg article for instructions.

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