I'm pretty sure you should be looking at XFree86 instead of KDE/kdm. Never thought about it, but I'd like to get a nice background instead of those dots too, but that's the usual pic that's comes up when X starts.
------ ettan On a beautiful day (Thursday, 26. september 2002 12:00) Bastiaan Naber wrote. > I would like to get rid of the black and white dotted background when >kdm starts. My eyes hurt very much every time I start my computer. > > I have looked in /etc/kde3/kdm but could not find anything. I would like > to replace is with a plain color instead of the dots. Just black or blue. > I mean the dotted background that comes up just before loading the > blue debian background. > > Does anyone know how to do this ? > > Bastiaan