Re: I'm missing from kdm portraits at startup
* Dougie Nisbet <dougie@tbird2.homelan> [020109 14:06]:
> I did 'usermod -u 501' dougie to change my UID from 1000. When I
> logged out and in again, I'm no longer a picture on the kdm login
> screen. root is there, and all the other users, but I'm missing. I
> can't figure out where kde stores this list. I can still log in no
> problem, but I'm a bit puzzled about why the icon has dissapeared.
> Where has it gone?
In /etc/kde2/kdm/kdmrc (/etc/X11/kdm/kdmrc on older versions) there is a
MinShowUID=xxx line. On default it is set to 1000 i think. Lower it to
500 if your users ids start at 500.
Yours,
Karsten
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Karsten Heymann <karsten.heymann@gmx.de> <karsten@ecology.uni-kiel.de>
CAU-University Kiel, Germany
Registered Linux User #221014 (http://counter.li.org)
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