changing GDM background image on F12

[fred smith]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 04:37:53AM +0000, Martin Airs wrote:
> On 11/29/2009 01:50 AM, Martin Airs wrote:
> >On 11/29/2009 01:38 AM, fred smith wrote:
> >>On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:36:32AM +1030, Tim wrote:
> >>>On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 17:48 -0500, fred smith wrote:
> >>>>I'd like to change the GDM (login) screen wallpaper
> >>>You could try the brute force and ignorance method:  Find the graphic
> >>>currently used, and simply replace the picture file with your own.
> >>>
> >>>I did that with my laptop, since none of the "correct" ways to 
> >>>configure
> >>>GDM had any effec.  That was with Fedora 7 and 11, I haven't tried 12
> >>>yet.
> >>belive me, I'm tempted!
> >>:)
> >>
> >try editing the file....
> >
> >/usr/share/backgrounds/constantine/default/constantine.xml
> >
> >and change the constantine.png to your own file in every instance of 
> >the name constantine.png
> >
> >just a thought
> >
> >Martin
> >
> 
> this is how I changed my gnome login background
> 

Yeah, that works. kinda brute-force, but I've gotten sufficiently tired
of the chase that brute-force works for me. thanks for the suggestion!

I can imagine that certain package updates may clobber it, so I'm keeping
a copy aside of the modified file.

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