Re: changing GDM background image on F12

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Fred,

That is exactly what I had to do as well. I am curious also to change
the login display box , have you seen how to do that?

On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 15:15 -0500, fred smith wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:31:10PM -0500, fred smith wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:40:36AM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> > > > You can also set it as a user's background via the normal
> > > > preferences setting and then make that the system default (via the
> > > > bottom "Make Default" button).
> > > 
> > > Oh nice.  I had looked right past that, even after reading Bill's
> > > message. :/
> > > 
> > > That works fine here as well.  Whatever issue Fred's running into, I
> > > don't think it's anything that is generally or completely broken.  but
> > > it seems like he's gone the easy route and overwritten the default
> > > image, so we may not find the real cause.
> > 
> > Actually, what I did was save the original constantine.xml and edit
> > it to point to the actual image I wanted instead of the default one,
> > then saved myself a spare copy of the modified file in case some
> > future update clobbers it.
> > 
> > I, too, would like to know why the normal methods didn't work, but
> > eventually frustration took hold.
> 
> I don't know why the prescribed method doesn't work. I fought with it
> for a long time last fall when I installed F12 on my eeepc. I finally
> gave up and hacked the file that defines the GDM background.
> 
> If you look in /usr/share/backgrounds/constantine/default/constantine.xml,
> you'll find a series of lines that spell out the full path to the image
> file used on the login screen. Just edit it so that each line points
> instead to the file you want it to use then log off/on and you should
> be all set. (I don't think it needs a reboot--I don't really remember.)
> 
> Just from paranoia, I keep "spare" copies of both the original file as
> well as my modified one, in case a GDM update were to come down the pike
> and overwrite my customized file.
> 
> -- 
> ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----------------------------
>     "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of
>      heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
> ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) -----------------------------


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