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KDE login Actions Menu

Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:15 pm
We are pathetically stuck using KDE v3.5 on RHEL5 into the foreseeable future.

I would like to add a command to the Actions Menu of the Login Dialog Box. Is there a way to do that? I did a lot of looking on the kde.org site, but found nothing about this for version 3.5.

Background: The action I want to add is one that changes the display configuration in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restarts the X server. Our current method first requires a user to login to run a script that changes the xorg.conf file, then logout again for an X server restart, then logs in a second time. I'm trying to avoid excessive logins, by allowing us to make the xorg.conf change and Xserver restart without a user login.

Any ideas?
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Re: KDE login Actions Menu

Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:43 pm
I'm not sure if this menu isn't hardcoded in kdm's code :/ I would suggest using something like scripted xmessage to place additional button somewhere on screen, which would run this action. Maybe it's a lame idea, but the fastest to implement :) The cleanest method would be to get srpm of kdm, add acction to menu (running shellscript would be easy), build rpm and install it.


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