[HOW-TO] Backtrack 5 KDE GUI Login

[fossilk1]

1. To make the login gui which should be in (Dragon Icon start button) then (Settings) and then click on (System Settings). You would scroll down to where it says (Login Screen). In the Login screen gui you will look at the tabs which should be (General)(Dialog)(Background)(Theme)(Shoutdown)(Us ers)(Convenience). You will click on the one that says (Theme) and you should be able to see the buttons (Install new theme)(Remove Theme)(Get new theme). You will click on (Get New theme) and download the themes you want. I got a theme called Asphyxia which you can type in the search to see what im talking about. Once you have the theme that you want. Click on that theme and click Apply.

2. Use any editor you want (i used gedit) and copy the code below into the kdm.conf

gedit /ect/init.d/kdm.conf

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          x-display-manager kdm
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs hal
# Required-Stop:    $local_fs $remote_fs hal
# Should-Start:      console-screen
# Should-Stop:      console-screen
# Default-Start:    2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: X display manager for KDE
# Description:      KDM manages a collection of X servers, which may be on the local host or remote machines.
### END INIT INFO
# /etc/init.d/kdm: start or stop the X display manager
# Script originally stolen from the xdm package
#
# description: K Display Manager
#
set -e

# Import the LSB init functions
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

# To start kdm even if it is not the default display manager, change
# HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER to "false."
HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=true
DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE=/etc/X11/default-display-manager

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
DAEMON=/usr/bin/kdm
PIDFILE=/var/run/kdm.pid
UPGRADEFILE=/var/run/kdm.upgrade

# parameters to support kdm customization
KDMRC=/etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc
BACKGROUNDRC=/etc/kde4/kdm/backgroundrc

#if configuration is changed by kdmtheme or other tools, don't do magick
if grep -q "Theme=@@@ToBeReplacedByDesktopBase@@@" ${KDMRC} && grep -q "Wallpaper=default_blue.jpg" ${BACKGROUNDRC}
then



KDMOVERRIDEDIR=/etc/default/kdm.d
KDMCFGDIR=/var/run/kdm
KDMCFG=$KDMCFGDIR/kdmrc
BACKGROUNDCFG=$KDMCFGDIR/backgroundrc

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

# uncomment, if you want auto-logon to be runlevel-dependant
#test "$runlevel" || { runlevel=`runlevel`; runlevel=${runlevel#* }; }
#test "$runlevel" = 4 && ARG=-autolog || ARG=-noautolog

# uncomment, if you want tons of debug info in your syslog
#ARG="$ARG -debug 255"

# we use an alternative kdm master configuration file
ARG="$ARG -config $KDMCFG"

# we source overrides. run-parts sorts the list in a predictable order
if [ -d "$KDMOVERRIDEDIR" ]; then
    for part in $(run-parts --list "$KDMOVERRIDEDIR" 2>/dev/null || true); do
        . "$part"
    done
fi

# we generate kdm configuration files
genkdmconf --in $KDMCFGDIR 1> /dev/null

# we update kdm configuration files (only overridden values)
[ -n "$USEBACKGROUND" ] && sed -i "s|^#\?UseBackground=.*|UseBackground=$USEBACKGROUND|" $KDMCFG
[ -n "$BACKGROUNDCFG" ] && sed -i "s|^#\?BackgroundCfg=.*|BackgroundCfg=$BACKGROUNDCFG|" $KDMCFG
[ -n "$USETHEME" ] && sed -i "s|^#\?UseTheme=.*|UseTheme=$USETHEME|" $KDMCFG
[ -n "$THEME" ] && sed -i "s|^#\?Theme=.*|Theme=$THEME|" $KDMCFG
[ -n "$WALLPAPER" ] && sed -i "s|^#\?Wallpaper=.*|Wallpaper=`readlink -f $WALLPAPER`|" $BACKGROUNDCFG


fi
# autologin overrides are useful for live debian environment
if [ -n "$AUTOLOGINUSER" ]; then
   sed -i "s|^#\?AutoLoginEnable=.*|AutoLoginEnable=true|" $KDMCFG
   sed -i "s|^#\?AutoLoginUser=.*|AutoLoginUser=$AUTOLOGINUSER|" $KDMCFG
fi
[ -n "$AUTOLOGINDELAY" ] && sed -i "s|^#\?AutoLoginDelay=.*|AutoLoginDelay=$AUTOLOGINDELAY|" $KDMCFG
[ -n "$AUTOLOGINAGAIN" ] && sed -i "s|^#\?AutoLoginAgain=.*|AutoLoginAgain=$AUTOLOGINAGAIN|" $KDMCFG
[ -n "$AUTOLOGINLOCKED" ] && sed -i "s|^#\?AutoLoginLocked=.*|AutoLoginLocked=$AUTOLOGINLOCKED|" $KDMCFG

# If we upgraded the daemon, we can't use the --exec argument to
# start-stop-daemon since the inode will have changed.  The risk here is that
# in a situation where the daemon died, its pidfile was not cleaned up, and
# some other process is now running under that pid, start-stop-daemon will send
# signals to an innocent process.  However, this seems like a corner case.
# C'est la vie!
if [ -e $UPGRADEFILE ]; then
  SSD_ARGS="--pidfile $PIDFILE --startas $DAEMON"
else
  SSD_ARGS="--pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON"
fi

stillrunning () {
  if expr "$(cat /proc/$DAEMONPID/cmdline 2> /dev/null)" : "$DAEMON" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    true
  else
    # if the daemon does not remove its own pidfile, we will
    rm -f $PIDFILE $UPGRADEFILE
    false
  fi;
}

case "$1" in
  start)
    if [ -e $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE ] &&
      [ "$HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER" = "true" ] &&
      [ "$(cat $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE)" != "$DAEMON" ]; then
      echo "Not starting K Display Manager (kdm); it is not the default display manager."
    else
      echo -n "Starting K Display Manager: kdm"
      start-stop-daemon --start --quiet $SSD_ARGS -- $ARG || echo -n " already running"
      echo "."
    fi
  ;;

  restart)
    /etc/init.d/kdm stop
    if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
      if stillrunning; then
        exit 1
      fi
    fi
    /etc/init.d/kdm start
  ;;

  reload)
    echo -n "Reloading K Display Manager configuration..."
    if start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet $SSD_ARGS; then
      echo "done."
    else
      echo "kdm not running."
    fi
  ;;

  force-reload)
    /etc/init.d/kdm reload
  ;;

  stop)
    echo -n "Stopping K Display Manager: kdm"
    if [ ! -f $PIDFILE ]; then
      echo " not running ($PIDFILE not found)."
      exit 0
    else
      DAEMONPID=$(cat $PIDFILE | tr -d '[:blank:]')
      KILLCOUNT=1
      if [ ! -e $UPGRADEFILE ]; then
        if start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet $SSD_ARGS; then
          # give kdm's signal handler a second to catch its breath
          sleep 1
        else
          echo -n " not running"
        fi
      fi
      while [ $KILLCOUNT -le 5 ]; do
        if stillrunning; then
          kill $DAEMONPID
        else
          break
        fi
        sleep 1
        KILLCOUNT=$(( $KILLCOUNT + 1 ))
      done
      if stillrunning; then
        echo -n " not responding to TERM signal (pid $DAEMONPID)"
      else
        rm -f $UPGRADEFILE
      fi
    fi
    echo "."
  ;;
  status)
    status_of_proc -p "$PIDFILE" "$DAEMON" kdm && exit 0 || exit $?
  ;;

  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/kdm {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

If you do not change the information it will not load your login gui.

3. Now you will open up the terminator or shell what ever your using and type this command in there.

root@bt:~# update-rc.d kdm defaults

4. Reboot and see if it loaded. If it didn't then use this next command b/c it might not of gotten the execuetable in the shell script. Go in to the folder 1st then use the command. Use the command "cd /etc/inti.d" with out the quotes.

root@bt:/etc/init.d/# sudo chmod +x kdm

5. If you need to go back to CLI then look at this page.CLI or KDM Theme


Loading Boot Splash

This one is simply just go to (Dragon Icon start button) then (Settings) and then click on (System Settings). Click on (Workspace Appearance) Then On Splash Screen and then on (Get New Themes...) I used the Asphyxia one which can be found there, just type it in the search box. click on your splash screen and select apply. Your done.


Change background wallaper

Right click on any where on your desktop and in the mouse menu just select (Folder View Settings Alt+D, Alt+S) which should be at the bottom. It should open up with the wallpaper. Click on Get New Wallapapers... and I leave the rest to you.

credit to CureMyMind

[Archangel-Amael]

While this may be a how-to it's not really a fix. Considering we set BT up to not boot into a gui automatically on purpose.