There is a graphical tool for configuring kdm. You will find it under the menu K/Settings/Applications/. With this tool you can configure the kdm specific options (stored in kdmrc), but kdm still has to be set up properly just like xdm, so please read on.
The kdm-specific option are configured by editing the file "$KDEDIR/share/config/kdmrc". There are three sections in kdmrc:
The keys in this section are
StdFont FailFont GreetFont GreetString SessionTypes LogoPixmap ShutdownButton Shutdown Restart UserView Users NoUsers SortUsers GUIStyle |
A short description of the keys:
is a fontsstring formatted like this: Courier,12,5,iso-8859-1,50,0.
is the title of the kdm login window.
is a ``;'' separated list of session arguments. It defaults to SessionTypes=kde;failsafe. Above example uses additionally the fvwm2 and fvwm95 windowmanagers.
Change this, if you dont like the logo.
ShutdownButton controls when the shutdown button is displayed and can be one of All, None, RootOnly and ConsoleOnly. Shutdown and Restart are the commands to run on shutdown/restart. They default to /sbin/halt and /sbin/reboot. The meaning of All and None is very clear, if you choose ConsoleOnly you can't do a remote shutdown.
If this is set to ``1'', a graphical view of users will be displayed in the kdm window.
is a ``;'' separated list of usernames that will be displayed in the graphical user view. If UserView is 1 and the Users entry is missing, kdm will look for users in the password file. The users displayed are those who have a real name beside their loginname, a home directory and a default shell - the rest is skipped. Kdm will look in $KDEDIR/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/ for an icon for each user. If there exists an icon named johndoe.xpm, kdm will use that for displaying user johndoe, if not kdm will use default.xpm. So if you have a little picture of every user on your system, just place them in $KDEDIR/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/ and have great fun logging in with kdm ;-) NOTE: Kdm is able to handle icons with different sizes, but it might not be too pretty to use both very small and very large icons.
is a ``;'' separated list of usernames that won't be displayed. Use it to filter ``pseudo-users'' like sync and shutdown from the user view.
If set to ``0'', the list of users are displayed in the order it was read. The default is to display users in sorted order.
can be either Motif or Windows.