[kde-linux] KDE4 password prompts

[Dag Nygren]

On Monday 29 September 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 28 September 2008 23:18:41 Dag Nygren wrote:
> > On Sunday, 28. September 2008 23:25:29 Dale wrote:
> > > Gentoo shows the same as your, little circles filled in.  Since Gentoo
> > > is from source, maybe distro specific?
> >
> > Thanks all for trying to help here.
> >
> > My KDE4 is compiled from source and used as an upgrade to an old KDE3
> > installation. Wonder if it could be a nonexisting font problem? The kdm
> > login screen is now the only one that shows black circles as it should.
> > This could also indicate that there is some old KDE3 setting interfering.
> > Anybody knows if the login password echo setting should affect all the
> > login dialogues ? And in what config file the setting is stored
> > (kdeglobal?)
>
> I think I may have found what you need.  Look at
> /user/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc, where you will see
>
> # If this is true, the entered password is echoed as bullets. Otherwise,
> # no feedback is given at all.
> # Default is true
> #EchoPasswd=false

Also found that, thanks. But actually kdm is the only one that works as 
expected :-). Need the file where "all the other" password dialogs is defined.

Best
Dag