831803 – login screen with slideshow doesn't work

Bug 831803 - login screen with slideshow doesn't work

Summary: login screen with slideshow doesn't work

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 267903

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Product:	openSUSE 12.3
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Other (show other bugs)
Version:	Final
Hardware:	x86-64 openSUSE 12.3

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal (vote)
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Reported:	2013-07-27 23:17 UTC by Noel Carneiro
Modified:	2013-08-22 21:56 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Noel Carneiro 2013-07-27 23:17:13 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.32 Safari/537.36

When selecting slideshow for the login screen, it doesn't work. A work around, by commenting lines 84 to 91 on "/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/read_sysconfig.sh", used to work but even this wor around doesn't work anymore.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select slideshow in "System Settings->Login Screen->Background"
2. Logout (or reboot, doesn't matter!)
3. Login screen is stuck with default login screen (from inital boot after installation)
4. Comment lines 84-91 of /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/read_sysconfig.sh (old work around)
5. Login screen is stuck with blue stripes, no slide show
Actual Results:  
The login screen is stuck with default login screen (from inital boot after installation)

Expected Results:  
The login screen should have changed to slide show after sterps 1, 2 above or, after step 4 if work around is used.

Comment 1 Christian Trippe 2013-08-19 06:24:11 UTC

The systemsettings KCM modul is known to conflict with /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager. Marking this one as duplicate of the general bug for this confilct.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 267903 ***

Comment 2 noel carneiro 2013-08-21 22:54:56 UTC

Just trying to understand. If this is a duplicate of bug 267903, which has been around for 7 years, why is that it used to work up to opensuse 12.1 and now it is not woking?

Best regards,

Comment 3 Forgotten User DV81ZEWZkN 2013-08-22 21:56:30 UTC

You can adjust your wanted KDM theme in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanger. That is the point of the original bug report, that adjusting settings in kcm takes no effect.