Re: ugle background when starting kdm

["Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su>]

> I would like to get rid of the black and white dotted background when
> kdm starts. My eyes hurt very much every time I start my computer.
> 
> I have looked in /etc/kde3/kdm but could not find anything. I would like
> to replace is with a plain color instead of the dots. Just black or blue.
> I mean the dotted background that comes up just before loading the
> blue debian background.
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this ?

For kde2, you could edit /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsetup and add line
/usr/bin/kdmdesktop &

Then, background settings from kdmrc will work.

I think the same is true from kde3 (I don't have kde3 here to test)