[ltp] Mandrake 9.1 Login

[Richard Neill]

You should be able to get Mandrake Control centre via the KDE menu
(K -> Configuration -> Mandrake Control Centre). Otherwise, you can su 
to root, and type drakconf.

A thought - have you created a new user account, or are you still using 
your old /home ? If you are using a pre-existing /home, which was 
previously used on something other than Mandrake, you may find that the 
KDE menus are incorrect.

To change the login screen, see
http://www.richardneill.org/a22p-mdk9-1.html#tweaks

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Login Manager - use KDM - it's much nicer than MdkKDM.
Firstly, use Mandrake Control Center -> Hardware -> Display Manager 
Chooser -> KDM.
Then use KDE Control Center -> System -> Login Manager to set it up.
(KDE will prompt for the root password as required). If you've installed 
faces-penguin from Contribs, you can now change the user icons to the 
old-style penguins.
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Hope that helps

Richard




Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> Hi All 
> 
> As you people may recall there were a few issues with Mandrake 9.1 on my 
> thinkpad. Well as I indicated I would play with this a while on the desktop 
> test box setup to see what I could do with it.
> 
> 1. System installed on desktop box.
> 2. HD makes very hard clicking sounds. Sounds like a good way to destroy a HD. 
> This HD did not make these sounds 10 minutes ago with Debian.
> 3. Booted system, system booted into login screen with icons for login, no 
> space for manual enter user name. 
> 4. Logged in went automatically to KDE <user>
> 5. Made several attempts to login to root by booting into failsafe and 
> linus-nonfb with out success. This is different I was able to log in to root 
> by this method on the Thinkpad.
> 6. Logged in to root as command line by <ctrl><atl>F1. Tried to log out of 
> user in F7 could not thus could not log into root as GUI eliminating access 
> to Mandrake Control Center this way.
> 7. Enter Mandrake Control Center by password and user screen. This is 
> different Mandrake control Center did not exist on the Thinkpad.
> 8. Set login to command line and logged in to root in KDE.
> 9. Made several attempted to set Gnome login as standard login but failed.
> 
> One Question: Does anyone expect a real newbie to figure this out the first 
> time he/she installs Mandrake?
> 
> One Question: Changing the login screen is not the same as it was in RH so 
> please how does one alter the login screen to gnome so that standard login 
> may be used? 
>