F14 - Changing GDM Background

[Sawrub]

  Hello All,

Setting default GDM background was a little easy till F12 by using the 
'Set as Default' button, but i can't see it there now in F14. Please 
rescue me to change it.
Is there any way to set the same for the playmouth, so as to have one 
background right from the time when booting starts.

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Saurabh Sharma
Linux user number: 490644
http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/
Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:21:09AM +0530, Sawrub wrote:
>  
>  Setting default GDM background was a little easy till F12 by using the 
>  'Set as Default' button, but i can't see it there now in F14. Please 
>  rescue me to change it. 
A documentation is exemplary unhelpful here.  At
http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/2.32/gdm.html
you can find the following:

<quote>
GDM enables the following gnome-settings-daemon plugins:
a11y-keyboard, background, sound, xsettings.

These are responsible for things like the background image, font and
theme settings, sound events, etc.
</quote>

and that is all.  This "etc." is the most interesting but quite
mysterious.  No word how this is "responsible" or what you can do
with it or maybe how to write and activate your own plugins.
Looking with gconftool-2 you can find:

     /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/background:
      active = true
      priority = 5

So apparently you can have some background, not of your choice, or
you may have no background.  Similarly with other settings where in
nearly all cases you are "free to choose" between true and false.
AFAIK if you need more flexibility here then your easiest bet is to
recompile on F14 gdm-2.20.11 (no sweat) and use that instead.  Of
course only when you do not need something which your current gdm
supplies but it is missing from 2.20 series.

>  Is there any way to set the same for the playmouth, so as to have one
>
>  background right from the time when booting starts. 
Look at various plymouth-theme-* packages (not "playmouth").  You
will likely have to write your own but at least you have source
examples and switching these themes is very easy; but do not forget
initrd rebuilding.

If anybody can tell more about the subject then I am all ears.

   Michal

[stan]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:04:34 -0600
Michal Jaegermann <michal(a)harddata.com&gt; wrote:
 
>  If anybody can tell more about the subject then I am all ears.
Not a solution, but an alternative.  I think wallpapoz will do what you
want.

$ rpm -qi wallpapoz 
Name        : wallpapoz Relocations: (not relocatable) Version     :
0.5                               Vendor: Fedora Project Release     :
1.fc14                        Build Date: Wed 06 Oct 2010 01:57:25 PM
MST Install Date: Fri 08 Oct 2010 11:27:40 AM MST      Build Host:
x86-03.phx2.fedoraproject.org Group       : User
Interface/Desktops       Source RPM: wallpapoz-0.5-1.fc14.src.rpm
Size        : 527315                           License: GPLv2+
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Thu 07 Oct 2010 10:47:31 AM MST, Key ID
421caddb97a1071f Packager    : Fedora Project URL         :
http://wallpapoz.akbarhome.com/ 
Summary     : Gnome Multi Backgrounds and Wallpapers Configuration Tool
Description : This tool enables your Gnome desktop to have different
wallpapers for different workspaces or virtual desktops.

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 02:19:36PM -0700, stan wrote:
>  On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:04:34 -0600
>  Michal Jaegermann <michal(a)harddata.com&gt; wrote:
>   
>  > If anybody can tell more about the subject then I am all ears.
>  
>  Not a solution, but an alternative.  I think wallpapoz will do what you
>  want. 
...
>  Description : This tool enables your Gnome desktop to have different
>  wallpapers for different workspaces or virtual desktops. 
Errr..., the original question from Sawrub was about a gdm
background and not backgrounds for Gnome desktops.

    Michal

[cornel panceac]

2010/10/31 Sawrub <luckysharma11(a)gmail.com&gt;

>   Hello All,
>
>  Setting default GDM background was a little easy till F12 by using the
>  'Set as Default' button, but i can't see it there now in F14. Please
>  rescue me to change it.
>  
never tried in fedora but this worked in ubuntu:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-do-you-change-the-boot-splash-screen-image-...

Is there any way to set the same for the playmouth, so as to have one
>  background right from the time when booting starts.
>  
i have no idea about plymouth.

>  --
>  Saurabh Sharma
>  Linux user number: 490644
>  http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/
>  Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows
>
>

[Sawrub]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:48 PM, cornel panceac <cpanceac(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  2010/10/31 Sawrub <luckysharma11(a)gmail.com&gt;
> >
> >  Hello All,
> >
> > Setting default GDM background was a little easy till F12 by using the
> > 'Set as Default' button, but i can't see it there now in F14. Please
> > rescue me to change it.
>
>  never tried in fedora but this worked in ubuntu:
>
>  http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-do-you-change-the-boot-splash-screen-image-for-10-04-lucid-lynx.html
>
> > Is there any way to set the same for the playmouth, so as to have one
> > background right from the time when booting starts.
>
>  i have no idea about plymouth.
> >
> > --
> > Saurabh Sharma
> > Linux user number: 490644
> > http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/
> > Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows
> >
>
>
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Wow the hack worked. Just the things to be checked at that moment is
that better to keep the images desired to be used as background under
/usr/share/backgrounds/images/ since user's home directory is not
accessible.
The image is there in case when user logins in but is missing when the
user types in password to resume a suspend.

[stan]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:07:40 -0600
>  Michal Jaegermann <michal(a)harddata.com&gt; wrote: 
 
>  Errr..., the original question from Sawrub was about a gdm
>  background and not backgrounds for Gnome desktops.
>   
My bad.  It worked for me on F12, and I thought I'd used wallpapoz.
Obviously not.