changing GDM background image on F12

[fred smith]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 01:53:14PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Could you explain a little more what you are trying to do?
> >
> > If you're just trying to change the wallpaper, what happens when you
> > just use the standard menu to do that? Or are you trying to do
> > something more?
> >
> > What behavior do you get when you (from memory)
> >   system->preferences->appearance->background->add->{select a file}
> >   and if by default you mean system wide, the [make default] button may help
> 
> As the subject says, he's trying to change the background for the GDM
> screen.  Since GDM doesn't provide a panel, there isn't really a
> convenient way to browse to system->preferences->appearance... :)
> 
> Using gconftool-2 is generally the best way to achieve this, and works
> fine for me on F-12 (as it has in past releases).  Why it's not
> working for Fred remains to be seen.

As Todd says, I'd like to change the GDM (login) screen wallpaper. I had
accidentally stumbled into that in F10, and never really knew how I
had done it (but liked the image it ended up with so I left it.)
but then my SSD went bad and when I got it back from repair I installed
F11 and never pursued this, but now that I've done an update to F12
I'd like to change the image again. I thought that choosing "make
default" in the tool Bill suggests would do it, but it doesn't.
so I've also tried the command (shown in earlier emails in this thread
but somehow purged from this one) using gconftool-2 and it didn't
work either.

i've put the image in /usr/share/backgrounds/images, but a lot of the
discussion I've seen of this just say "/usr/share/backgrunds", so is
it possible that it should not go in any of hte subdirs there? doesn't
seem to make sense, as I specified the full path to the file when I
ran gconftool-2.


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