Re: Setting GDM Login Screen Background

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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.

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Saurabh Sharma
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