KDM Login

I finally successfully installed both Windows XP and Fedora 10 (Both KDE and GNOME) on my acer aspire whose pre-installed OS (Linpus Linux) had been screwed by me earlier. Windows fonts were fine for the small screen, but i had to manually change the default fonts both in KDE and GNOME. The default fonts were too large for the small screen of aspire one. What took me more time figuring out was the font size of KDM login screen. After much going about the filesystem, i fixed it today.
It goes as follows; the file /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc is the configuration file for the KDM. In this file under the [X-*-Greeter] section there is a Theme option that points to the folder containing the currently used KDM theme. After this all that needs to be done was to edit the xml configuration file.

My first netbook - Acer Aspire One

Hey,
guess what ?? today i purchased my first ever laptop and its Acer Aspire One :) Went in the evening to Nehru place with Sunder (my colleague in the office) and brought it. Its configuration is quiet good for what one could expect from a laptop that comes for just Rs. 17550/ Yes, i brought it for that much. I brought the blue one with Linux as the Operating System. It has 1 Gig of RAM, 160 gigs of hard-disk, Ethernet, Wifi, Web-cam, Speakers, audio-jacks, microphone, USB, card-readers, the screen is just 8.9 inches, which can be a problem in some situations. Lets hope those situations don't come.

The first thing i did after coming home was to have a look at the accompanying documents, although i did not read them, and then i screwed the system in just 30 minutes. Now, I am not able to boot in the gui nor to the command line. It's kinda sad, but i cannot blame anyone else except for me. Actually i was just trying to find out which kernel version was used, what is the desktop environment (i have never seen like this ever), which distribution etc. I was quiet successful in my attempts, before i screwed up everything; like i came to know that they used Fedora 8 (werewolf) to build the kernel(kernel version 2.6.something), used XFCE as the desktop enviorment, and some Acer customized packages.

So, i am back again to ground zero, using my friends machine to write this post, but i'll fix it soon. I am planning to install Fedora 10 on it with all the eye candies. I'll do the installation tomorrow..........