Walking penguins on OS select screen today... WHAT THE HECK?

[Windaria]

OK... I have Suse 10.2 installed and, when I select my OS (on Ubuntu I know I was using Grub, but with the KDE/Suse setup I think I may be using Lilo... not sure) select screen I noticed that it was totally different. I have always had the default install screen, but today there was an igloo on it, penguins walking around, snow on the 'ground' of the screen... and it was just far more graphical in general as compared to normal.

What on earth was this? I haven't selected any new visual setup... sure I would like to, just haven't tried to figure out how, but to have it change without my doing anything is just freaky in all the wrong ways. Particularly since, if I did choose something, that would not be it.

[valemon]

This theme appears once in a while, nothing to worry about. I think I have read somewhere how to make this permanently. Nice isn't it?

[Windaria]

I guess... not something that I would ever pick. Just scared the living daylights out of me to see something unexpected like that from my comp. Typically when I see something unexpected it means that the OS fried itself, after all.

I actually wish I knew how to set a different theme for that... and the login prompt, but oh well. Speaking of which, when I end session in Suse it brings me to a command prompt login prompt, and if I login then I am left at a standard command prompt and KDE doesn't load. I wish I knew how to fix that too.

[vengeance]

This theme appears once in a while, nothing to worry about. I think I have read somewhere how to make this permanently. Nice isn't it?

yeh it's a nice screen than the default,cud u tell me how to make it permanent

[bigtomrodney]

Speaking of which, when I end session in Suse it brings me to a command prompt login prompt, and if I login then I am left at a standard command prompt and KDE doesn't load. I wish I knew how to fix that too.

Do you get into the GUI at all or does this just happen when you are logging out?

[valemon]

yeh it's a nice screen than the default,cud u tell me how to make it permanent

In /boot/message there is a configuration file that controls the randomness of the "walking penguins". However /boot/message is an archive and you have to decompress.
Open a terminal and

su
cd /boot
cp message message.old
mkdir messagetemp
cd messagetemp
cpio -iv < /boot/message
nano gfxboot.cfg

Then you should change penguin from -1 to 100
it should look like this

penguin=100

Save and recreate the archive

ls | cpio -ov > /boot/message

This should be ok. Post if any problems

[vengeance]

k will try it out and let you know

[Windaria]

Do you get into the GUI at all or does this just happen when you are logging out?

When I was installing SUSE I selected the option for it to log me in automatically, so I don't actually type my ser name and password. But, when I log out, clicking End Session, I am brought to a non-graphical login prompt, and it is then where KDE does not start when I log in... and I do not know the command for it.

[valemon]

If I understood right, I think you need the "startx" command.

[gogalthorp]

Entering the root password should continue with the shutdown/restart

You have ended the GUI at that point. Startx will restart it if at a command prompt

Assuming KDE

Personal Settings - System Administration - Login Manager - Shutdown

Log into Admin mode

Change Root to everyone

This will stop the password requirement on shutdown.