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KDM automatic login background change

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Thursday, December 14th 2006, 1:05am

KDM automatic login background change

When I use KDM and specify that I want a random background on each login, the option fails to work (on Fedora) because the Current WallpaperName value in /etc/kde/kdm/backgroundrc is set to the first random value used, and that setting apparently overides the "random" selection.

By putting the following code in /etc/rc.d/rc.local the desired behavior is restored:

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# Remove any current wallpaper name from the login background
sed -i s/^CurrentWallpaperName=.*$/CurrentWallpaperName=/ /etc/kde/kdm/backgroundrc
sed -i s/^LastChange=.*$/LastChange=0/ /etc/kde/kdm/backgroundrc