[K12OSN] Login Background

Rob Owens rowens at ptd.net
Sat Jan 10 14:49:02 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:09:38AM -0500, Moon wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 11:16 +0530, Sudev Barar wrote:
> 
> > 2009/1/10 Moon <moon at smbis.com>:
> > > How does one change the login background image since gdmsetup is no longer
> > > available in the current release of GNOME? I definitely want to get rid of
> > > the ugly default login background...
> > >
> > 
> > If you are comfortable with command line gdm.conf is the file that
> > contains all parameters and pretty well commented.
> > 
> 
> Maybe I missed something here, but first I am not a programmer, second
> our definitions of "well commented" are about as far off as our physical
> locations.
> 
> I might as well be reading Greek... No offense to anyone but the point
> here is that I do not know Greek...
> 
> If someone can point me to the actual file that references the
> background image, I would appreciate it.
> 
Try /usr/share/gdm/themes

There should be a directory for each gdm theme installed on your system.  In each of those directories is probably a "background.png" file

-Rob




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