KDE login splash screen...

[MkIII_Supra]

Hey,
Using SuSE 9.0 Pro with KDE 3.1.4 as my WM of choice. I found some really cool login splash screens that I would like to use but it doesn't work. Here are the instructions from KDE-Look.org:

Open konqueror
Create the directory ~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/pics
Browse to ~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/pics
Move and uncompress your new splash screen file into the konqueror window
Have fun! :-)

Pretty easy and what I did. So I log out, restart the X server and log in... and the same boring defauly login splash shows up. So now I am rooting around my system trying to find where the heck this image is so I can use that location for the cool splash I wanna use...

I am posting here so that will give you an idea of my success! Thanks to those that can!

[bsm2001]

not sure about SUSE but MDK the splash screen pic is in /usr/share/pixmaps/splash.

[cybertron]

Those instructions worked for me in mdk. When you decompressed the tar in that directory, it didn't create a new subdirectory and put the images there did it? They need to be in exactly the directory they listed there, not a subdirectory.

[MkIII_Supra]

For SuSE all the KDE stuff is here:

/opt/kde3/share/apps/

then from there find the appropriate sub-folder. Although now I am trying to find where the mouse icons are stored so I can change them as well. See none of the normal locations that work for other distros seem to work with SuSE. I like SuSE because it seems to have the best hardware support and overall for an RPM based distro it's pretty reliable and easy to install software on... er okay I take that back.

90% of software that I try to install from source... won't because SuSE doesn't put things where other Distros do. SO it makes setup / configuration / installation a real pain in the patoot.

Thanks!

[bsm2001]

I dont think there are 2 distros that have the same setup.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by MkIII_Supra

Open konqueror
Create the directory ~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/pics
Browse to ~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/pics
Move and uncompress your new splash screen file into the konqueror window


That is what I did when using SuSE 8.2 and it worked fine.

Do those pics display properly when you click on them in Konqueror?

[TallGuy]

Originally posted by MkIII_Supra
For SuSE all the KDE stuff is here:

/opt/kde3/share/apps/

then from there find the appropriate sub-folder. Although now I am trying to find where the mouse icons are stored so I can change them as well. See none of the normal locations that work for other distros seem to work with SuSE. I like SuSE because it seems to have the best hardware support and overall for an RPM based distro it's pretty reliable and easy to install software on... er okay I take that back.

90% of software that I try to install from source... won't because SuSE doesn't put things where other Distros do. SO it makes setup / configuration / installation a real pain in the patoot.

Thanks!

sh configure --prefix=/opt/kde3

Sometimes it's hard to type --help...


:cool:

[psi42]

I had a bit of trouble getting those custom splash screens to work (I have kde 3.2). For some reason kcontrol's splash screen configurator would demo the screen, but ksplash would still display the old screen, even after I manually added a Theme.rc file.

And following the above instructions yielded nothing.

Impatient, I just copied the pics to
/opt/kde/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/Default
(at least that was the location in slack, and so i would suppose that's the default kde location...)
overwriting the default theme (so back it up first.)

It's not exactly elegant, but it works.

I suppose putting them in
~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/Default
would give you a user-specific splash screen without modifying the system settings.

I don't know why the kcontrol splash screen changer didn't work... It was really late at night at the time... :)