On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 07:27:32PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
fred smith wrote:
> I've looked thru the forums and done some googling but I don't see an
> answer THAT WORKS for this question:
>
> How to change the default GDM background/wallpaper to some other image?
> I've tried all the things listed in the forums and none of them works,
> including (but not limited to) copying the image I want into
> /usr/share/backgrounds/images then running this command:
>
> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
--set --type string "/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename"
"/usr/share/backgrounds/images/Fistmaster.FullHD.0190.jpg"
>
> having done that either log off or reboot and voila! no change at all! :(
FWIW, it works for me, using one of the stock images. It does require
a restart of gdm (which rebooting surely would cover :).
Perhaps the images you added has an SELinux context that gdm does not
like? Try a restorecon -rv "/usr/share/backgrounds/images" as well as
verifying that the image has permissions which would let the gdm user
read it.
all the images in that dir have the same owner and permissions.
selinux is not in enforcing mode, but I tried the command above anyway.
result: no change.
Is it possible that /usr/share/backgrounds/images isn't the right place?
there are several other dirs in /usr/share/backgrounds, so maybe I need
to try sticking it in other places.
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