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kdm in 3.4 - no user list?

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Friday, April 1st 2005, 2:29pm

kdm in 3.4 - no user list?

Hi

I've recently installed the Kubuntu RC with KDE 3.4. It would seem that the changes to the look of KDM mean that there is no longer a user list on the login screen. Is this right?

The two themes on kde-look.org containing a user list say they are gdm themes and they display a bit mangled when I use them, do not work and don't show the user list anyway. I have tried editing a kdm theme with code from a these gdm themes but I only get an empty box.

The control panel applet for KDM setup looks the same as always but none of the user list options seem to do anything.

I want to be able to login to a given user simply by double-clicking on their logo like I have for years with KDM.

Does KDM no longer support this feature?
Does anyone know where I can find the specs for a KDM theme (or a howto on how to write them)?
If my suspicions are right does anyone know why this backward step has been taken?

GDM offers themes with a user list but there seems to be no passwordless login (which is why I've always used KDM)...

maybe there is another display manager that offer the features I want?

Thanks for any ideas

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Monday, August 22nd 2005, 4:26am

RE: kdm in 3.4 - no user list?

Open Control Centre, under System Administration, Login Manager, Users [Tab] there should be a show list check box.

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Friday, August 26th 2005, 9:05pm

RE: kdm in 3.4 - no user list?

I had this same problem, tried all sorts of stuff in kdmrc with no luck...
Since nothing worked I decided to look at the kdm sources. Found out that the
greeter part of kdm wants to run as user "nobody". If it doesn't find that user
the list won't get populated. So try adding "nobody" to your system.

example /etc/passwd entry:
nobody:x:999:999:Nobody:/dev/null:/bin/false

* Tommi *

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Thursday, September 1st 2005, 9:01am

RE: kdm in 3.4 - no user list?

I have the same problem. Ubuntu with kde installed, also tried with Kubuntu. I have user nobody on the system, but this does not solve the problem.

Any ideas how could I make a list of possible users on the login screen?

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Tuesday, September 6th 2005, 9:30pm

RE: kdm in 3.4 - no user list?

Same problem here

KDE-3.4.2 on gentoo.
With my old system upgraded from older KDE versions no problem.
But with a fresh install of KDE-3.4.2 no user list and/or user icons.

Played also with a new kdmrc: no result.
Changed also the showlist settings for the login manager: stil no user list.

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Thursday, September 22nd 2005, 8:23pm

RE: kdm in 3.4 - no user list?

On my system it is really KDE-3.4.2 causing this problem

I installed only KDM-3.4.1 (without dependencies).
On a gentoo system one can easily install an other version.
At a new login I got a userlist and user icons back!
I could not change the user icons probably because of missing dependencies.

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Saturday, December 17th 2005, 7:27pm

RE: kdm in 3.4 - no user list?

After some googling i found a hint in a Suse forum to restore the user list -at the expense og losing the theming og the login screen, however.

You can switch off the theming for the KDE login screen by editing /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc (as root): change the line that reads

Source code

 
1

UseTheme=true
into

Source code

 
1

UseTheme=false


For background info, take a look at the Suse wiki at http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=User_Login_Screen

I must add i preferred the latest gdm, which supports both themes login AND the user list. ;)