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alleluia20

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Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 53

Beware: kdm needs some editing after upgrade, or won't start

After upgrade, I got a window saying that kdm did not find the theme Arch grey. So edit, with nano, /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and change the theme to oxygen (look for the line beginning by "theme", towards the end, and change the last work by "oxygen"). Then reboot.

onguarde

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Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 144

Re: Beware: kdm needs some editing after upgrade, or won't start

Hmm.. I did not experience this. Though I remembered renewing my old kdmrc with the new one saved as .pacsave. A reminder perhaps to merge these configs b4 it scews up something big. Yaourt -C might help.

jwcxz

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Registered: 2008-09-23

Posts: 239

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Re: Beware: kdm needs some editing after upgrade, or won't start

I had this problem as well and it puzzled me for a little bit.

My old kdmrc stopped working, so I switched it to the new kdmrc (i.e. moved kdmrc.pacnew to kdmrc).  Then, I got the error that you mentioned.  I then installed archlinux-themes-kdm to get the Arch theme (instead of switching back to Oxygen, but it doesn't matter what you do).

The package should be repackaged with a kdmrc that uses the Oxygen theme by default or archlinux-themes-kdm should be added as a dependency.

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Skripka

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Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

Re: Beware: kdm needs some editing after upgrade, or won't start

Never saw it...though I use KDEmod, with Oxygen theming.