KDE Greeter Help

[Ali Helmy]

Thanks for the help mate, but can anyone provide me with more details?

On 15/03/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 3/15/06, Ali Helmy <alihelmy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP
> >
> > Here is the problem: I got FC4 installed on my laptop, along with
> > KDE3.5... Now, today I tried installing a theme for the greeter (login
> > screen, in which to enter username & password)... i went to Login management
> > and checked the greeter to be "Graphical Greeter" then selected the new
> > theme...
> >
> > When I restarted it loaded all the services as usual, but when it got to
> > the point where i should enter the name and password, instead it said that
> > the "Greeter Theme Corrupt" because theme has no values for username and
> > password fields in the warning message. I click ok, and then another warning
> > says: "Loading graphical greeter failed, trying to load standard greeter"
> > then the computer just does nothing after i click ok...
> >
> > i can log-on only to the laptop using the text-session (Alt+Ctrl+F1) but
> > i dont know what to do...
> >
> > Please i need some help to fix the problem, any idea how i can reset
> > that to the default or previous state?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> >
> >
> Well at least you have the console. I hope you can use one of the console
> text editors such as vi or emacs. If not, now is as good a time as any to
> learn.
>
> Go into the console (as root) and edit the following file:
> /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc . I am unsure as to what option will help you, but I
> suspect it will be obvious once you get in there. Most likely you can just
> comment out what ever option loads the theme.
>
> Once you think you are done, save the file and hit CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE That
> should attempt to reload the greeter. If it doesn't then just do a full
> reboot.
>
> Good luck.
>
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