HOWTO: Change your KDM Theme.

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This is a quick and simple guide explaining how to change your KDM theme. The only requirements for this howto are:

a) KDM (duh!)
b) Konsole or any terminal window (duh!x2)
c) A nice KDM theme to install (this is rocket science hard, leave now!)

KDM themes are available at KDE Looks.

Allright so let's get down to bussiness. I'll work using BlueTheme as an example. Its available here.

1) KDM themes usually comes in .tgz or .bz2 packages. You unpack these using the tar command as follows:

* For .tgz, the command is

tar xzf themename.tgz

* For .bz2, the command is

tar xjf themename.bz2

In our case, it's a .bz2 so we

tar xjf 21124-BlueTheme-0.2.tar.bz2

2) You can use the theme in your current directory or any you desire, but we are moving ours to /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/

sudo mv BlueTheme /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/

3) We are now going to edit the file that points kdm to the right theme direction with KWrite editor.

sudo kwrite /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc

Ok so go to Line 48 and 49. They read

Theme=/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/kubuntu

UseBackground=true

You change "kubuntu" for your BlueTheme (or your theme name), and that is it ("UseBackground" must be set to true).

*** Another method is found here

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