[ubuntu-uk] Login background

[David King]

On 11/08/12 01:26, Andres Muniz wrote:
>
> >
> > I had not see this before because the login screen is basically dark
> > purple with black text, with only the login box really standing out.
> >
> > I tried to change the login background but so far failed to get it to
> > see a new image.
> >
> >
> might be very basic answer but i have found that for 12.04 (not 
> studio) the login background is linked to the desktop background. 
> Unless you choose a picture outside of the default images offered. In 
> which case I seem to recall it defaults to a particular background 
> different from your desktop background.
>
> Last i checked I still had the small font problem and the unable to 
> shutdown if other user is logged in problem (and gives no feedback as 
> to why or how).
>
>
>

I entered this in the terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf

and in the section under [greeter] changed the filepath after background=

It had another file referenced there which was from an earlier version 
of Ubuntu.

Changing the image filepath to an existing image I wanted to use did 
nothing, I still have the dark background at login.

My username, the Samba user and Guest login names are all in white and 
visible. The icons top right are hard to see, and when I click the 
button next to the login box to set the desktop environment I want, the 
text is black against the dark background and only visible when one is 
highlighted with a white background.


So how can I get the login background changed to something else which works?

David K

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