Setting GDM Login Screen Background

Sawrub luckysharma11 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 02:40:55 UTC 2010


On 02/22/2010 12:10 AM, inode0 wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Sawrub<luckysharma11 at 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.

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