Setting GDM Login Screen Background

[Sawrub]

Hi All,
Appearance Preferences > Background and selecting 'Make Default' used to 
set the selected desktop background as the background image for the GDM 
login screen and used to work till F11, but is not working as desired 
under F12. Is there any other setting that i'm missing under F12 to do 
the same.

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Saurabh Sharma
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[Sawrub]

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

[Sawrub]

On 02/22/2010 12:10 AM, inode0 wrote:
>  On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:24 PM,
> Sawrub<luckysharma11(a)gmail.com>  wrote:
>     
> > Hi All,
> > Appearance Preferences>  Background and selecting 'Make Default' used to
> > set the selected desktop background as the background image for the GDM
> > login screen and used to work till F11, but is not working as desired
> > under F12. Is there any other setting that i'm missing under F12 to do
> > the same.
> >      
>  Seems to still work for me. Try putting your desired background image
>  in /usr/share/backgrounds someplace if you haven't maybe.
>
>  John
>      
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.

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

[Sawrub]

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.

-- 

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

[Tim]

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.

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[Jatin K]

On 02/22/2010 03:58 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>  Am Montag, den 22.02.2010, 08:10 +0530 schrieb 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.
> >      
>  I guess that the gdm user running gdm has no privileges to access the
>  location where you placed it.
>
>  Regards,
>  Christoph
>
>      
change the picture in following directory .... which is suite to your 
desktop size

/usr/share/backgrounds/constantine/default


I've done it ...it works for me



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[Christoph Wickert]

Am Montag, den 22.02.2010, 08:10 +0530 schrieb 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. 
I guess that the gdm user running gdm has no privileges to access the
location where you placed it.

Regards,
Christoph

[inode0]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Sawrub <luckysharma11(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi All,
>  Appearance Preferences > Background and selecting 'Make Default' used to
>  set the selected desktop background as the background image for the GDM
>  login screen and used to work till F11, but is not working as desired
>  under F12. Is there any other setting that i'm missing under F12 to do
>  the same. 
Seems to still work for me. Try putting your desired background image
in /usr/share/backgrounds someplace if you haven't maybe.

John