Re: Changing the login screen background image in F16

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On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 07:52:30PM -0400, Mike Wohlgemuth wrote:
> On 04/11/2012 04:41 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> >I've looked around and can't find where the Gnome login screen
> >background image is stored. I want to set it to something different
> >from the default.
> >
> I know you've found other answers, but I thought I'd throw this out
> there, too. I've created the following file:
> 
> /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/01-local-settings
> 
> and put the following in it:
> 
> [org/gnome/desktop/background]
> picture-options='zoom'
> picture-uri='file:///usr/local/share/backgrounds/MyLocalBackground.jpg'

This is an even better solution than mine, thanks Mike.  I didn't
realize you could do this in /etc/dconf, and that makes more sense
than artificially polluting /usr.

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