Comments on: How to Replace Ubuntu’s Default Brown Login Window

By: gdm 12

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:00:36 +0000

Thank you very much. That fixed it.

By: Lapino

Lapino — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:58:30 +0000

@Jeff:

It’s a bug in 7.10, so you have to do it this way:

Open the file /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default in a text editor with administrator privileges (e.g. sudo vim /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default) and search for the part that says

# Default value
if [ "x$BACKCOLOR" = "x" ]; then
BACKCOLOR=(some color in hex)
fi

and change it to:

# Default value
if [ "x$BACKCOLOR" = "x" ]; then
BACKCOLOR=”x”
fi

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:35:38 +0000

Tom,

I have a question for you that is related to this post. How do you change to background color for the gnome splash screen? In 7.04 and previous versions I did it in “Login Window”, but now in 7.10 it doesn’t seem to work.

By: Maxo

Maxo — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:16:25 +0000

Another great trick is to browse to /usr/share/gdm/themes/ and then the folder that is the theme you are using. Most themse use background.png for their background. Simply swap it out with the background image you want and you have a new background image. I usually copy the the folder and give it a new name and edit the files to show the new name as well, so my old theme is preserved, but it’s not mandatory.