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[ubuntu] Login screen has user background

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Since upgrading to 12.10, the login screen shows the desktop background of a particular user, rather than the generic background that I would expect. Is this a bug? Is there anyway to configure the desktop background to be used? I looked at the config files in /etc/lightdm, but I see nothing there that seems to imply using a user-specific desktop background for the greeter. In fact, unity-greeter.conf seems to be saying to use warty-final-ubuntu.png! (Hardware)

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Submitted by xskl on 10/22/2012

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Lightdm is displayed properly but after entering a password and clicking login, I see the screen blink and lightdm window re-appears and asks to log in as if nothing happened.

Configs

user@laptop:~$ cat /etc/lightdm/

lightdm.conf lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf users.conf

lightdm.conf

user@laptop:~$ cat /etc/lightd

unity-greeter 1 year 13 weeks ago

latest unity greeter doesn't show correct background. shows the old warty background!

I tried to change my LightDM background and theme in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta 2, changing /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.canonical.unity-greeter.gschema.xml file (I don't even know if it would work, but I couldn't find any other way), and I failed and restored original file.

Also, durning the same session I installed gnome-shell-extensions package, but it didn't work either.

Is there solution using a utility or folder shortcuts that would keep the active desktop wallpaper/background the same in KDE and Gnome/Unity. (Changing the background in one desktop would also change the other desktop's wallpaper)

I use both desktops because they both serve me better for different tasks, and i'd like to match LightDM login background for KDE as well.

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has released its first beta version for a few days, the final release will be put out 31 days later on October 13. Today, I just new installed Ubuntu 11.10 daily build in my machine. Unity becomes more comfortable. New LightDM is cool, it’s easy to change the log-in screen background.

Hello!

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 with gnome-shell. I have two admin user accounts.

Is there a permanent fix for the looping login problem in LightDM?

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. LightDM won't work even though I haven't changed any options (background, etc.). It just throws another login screen at me if I log in.

So I did the stuff you're supposed to. I reconfigured gdm from the terminal and used that to log in, and have been using gdm for ~3 months now.

Unity-greeter crashes, and constantly respawns, not letting me in. So, I configured auto login but that won't start anything except Unity session. I changed the lightdm.conf file to run Xubuntu but Unity still shows up. If I create a new user, it will start in Xubuntu just fine.