changing GDM background image on F12

[Bill Davidsen]

Chris wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:48:50 -0500
> fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 01:53:14PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>> Could you explain a little more what you are trying to do?
>>>>
>>>> If you're just trying to change the wallpaper, what happens when
>>>> you just use the standard menu to do that? Or are you trying to do
>>>> something more?
>>>>
>>>> What behavior do you get when you (from memory)
>>>>   system->preferences->appearance->background->add->{select a
>>>> file} and if by default you mean system wide, the [make default]
>>>> button may help
>>> As the subject says, he's trying to change the background for the
>>> GDM screen.  Since GDM doesn't provide a panel, there isn't really a
>>> convenient way to browse to system->preferences->appearance... :)
>>>
>>> Using gconftool-2 is generally the best way to achieve this, and
>>> works fine for me on F-12 (as it has in past releases).  Why it's
>>> not working for Fred remains to be seen.
>> As Todd says, I'd like to change the GDM (login) screen wallpaper. I
>> had accidentally stumbled into that in F10, and never really knew how
>> I had done it (but liked the image it ended up with so I left it.)
>> but then my SSD went bad and when I got it back from repair I
>> installed F11 and never pursued this, but now that I've done an
>> update to F12 I'd like to change the image again. I thought that
>> choosing "make default" in the tool Bill suggests would do it, but it
>> doesn't. so I've also tried the command (shown in earlier emails in
>> this thread but somehow purged from this one) using gconftool-2 and
>> it didn't work either.
>>
>> i've put the image in /usr/share/backgrounds/images, but a lot of the
>> discussion I've seen of this just say "/usr/share/backgrunds", so is
>> it possible that it should not go in any of hte subdirs there? doesn't
>> seem to make sense, as I specified the full path to the file when I
>> ran gconftool-2.
>>
>>
> 
> It's apparent that even after the above is spelled out, users still
> can't read. The Op is speaking of the Gnome Login background (GNOME
> LOGIN BACKGROUND)... 
> 
> NOT the users DESKTOP BACKGROUND. 
> 
> Un Effin' believable...
> 
As several of us have noted, this seems to work for us. The OP may have 
something else blocking this, or a high uptime, since I think you have to 
restart GDM.

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