On 02/24/2010 08:32 AM, Sawrub wrote: > On 02/23/2010 05:07 AM, Tim wrote: >> John: >>>> Seems to still work for me. Try putting your desired background image >>>> in /usr/share/backgrounds someplace if you haven't maybe. >> >> Sawrub: >>> I tried putting a symbolic link under the directory >>> /usr/share/backgrounds/ pointing to the directory that hosts my desired >>> picture. Added the same as desktop background and made it default, but >>> no success. >> Looking through this thread, it seems that people might be forgetting a >> few things: >> >> GDM runs as a special user, therefore it can't read YOUR files, by >> default. If your homespace hasn't got world-readable permissions on >> directories and the image file you want it to use, it can't read it. It >> may also need word-executable directories, and certain SELinux contexts. >> >> If you put the image file somewhere else (than your homespace), the same >> things apply. It'd be no good putting a file that only your username >> can read into /usr/share/backgrounds/. >> >> Look at the files that GDM uses by default, put yours in a similar >> location, and give yours the same permissions and SELinux contexts. >> >> I haven't done any customising with Fedora 12 yet, but that technique >> has worked with prior releases. >> > Thats seems something toughtfull, all above were kind of hacks, but i > do appriciate their help too. Going by this it seems that the "Set > Default" button does the same with the image that we desire to put > there but since its not working it seems like a config issue as its > working for other people. I too was happy with it under F11 [i386], > the fresh install of F12[x86_64] broke it atleast for me. > > Would be better to play around with configuration of "Appearance > Preferences > Background". Can some one tell me, what package to play > around with for it.Googling does not help much.Can something be done > here using Gconf configuration editor. > One thing that i noticed today. Setting a background as DEFAULT sets it there for the time when the desktop [session] is locked. But it is not capable of retaining/overriding the settings that are being done to set the GDM background at boot time. Since i tried setting a new desktop as DEFAULT and locking the desktop, the GDM window for resuming the session had the new picture every time i tried with a new picture. So its just the BOOT time that i can't override the settings. Any help on overriding these. -- Saurabh Sharma Linux user number: 490644 http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/ Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
