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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