I would like to change the login screen of of my system running openSuse 11.3 GNOME… I have tried most of the methods suggested in various threads on the forum but still not sure what to do.
I even tried running
gdmsetup
and
gnomesu --user=gdm --command="dbus-launch gnome-appearance-properties"
as root user none of these are working.
Anyone please help…
Thanks in advance… 
Hi
gdmsetup is long gone 
to change it you need to be root user and run the command for example;
sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos/blue-marble-west.jpg
Just change the path to your desired background. I may pay to copy it to /usr/share/backgrounds/ so it won’t get accidentally removed.
Another option is to edit directly gconf XML, two possible alternatives are:
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.vendor/%gconf-tree.xml
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.schemas/%gconf-tree.xml
Changes commited there are for gdm and all new users, that’s the best way I found so far to tweak everything in a single step and make changes effective. I strongly advice you to backup first the files.
On 2010-08-29 17:36, malcolmlewis wrote:
>
> Hi
> gdmsetup is long gone to change it you need to be root user and run
> the command for example;
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos/blue-marble-west.jpg
>
> --------------------
>
> Just change the path to your desired background. I may pay to copy it
> to /usr/share/backgrounds/ so it won’t get accidentally removed.
Or fire “gconf-editor”, find the entry /desktop/gnome/background/, and in the picture_filename edit
the value. Probably needs to be root.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
Hi
gdm AFAIK as root user run;
sudo -u gdm dbus-launch gconf-editor
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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the command
sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos/blue-marble-west.jpg
worked…
still I have 1 doubt…when i tried to run
sudo -u gdm dbus-launch gconf-editor
as root user it returned the following error.
** (gconf-editor:6952): CRITICAL **: Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:
any reason for this??
still thanks a lot for solving my problem…
Hi
Looks like it will need to be the gconftool commands from the CLI, not sure how to get the display working without logging in as your super user which I wouldn’t do!!
On 2010-08-31 15:06, pulkit verma wrote:
> any reason for this??
You have to use “su - gdm”, with a dash, in an xterm. Not sudo.
Although I’m not sure it has to be user “gdm”, because in my system gdm is running as root.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
Useful suggestion to use xterm to start gconf-editor; but why doesn’t the editor window display open when running gconf-editor from the command line, neither does xterm, but xterm opens from the icon in ‘applications’ and running gconf-editor from the xterm window opens the editor? Puzzled!
On 2011-09-23 23:56, RubyTuesday wrote:
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> Useful suggestion to use xterm to start gconf-editor; but why doesn’t
> the editor window display open when running gconf-editor from the
> command line, neither does xterm, but xterm opens from the icon in
> ‘applications’ and running gconf-editor from the xterm window opens the
> editor? Puzzled!
Did you notice that you are replying to a thread that has been dead for
over a year?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
No I didn’t (typical for me!) - and the info I posted and you quoted I deleted afterwords after realising I had confused myself by using a terminal logged in with ssh to another computer, clearly a bad day!
I only responded on this thread because after searching for any problems launching gconf-editor I came across it in the first couple of pages of search results. I was surprised too that the functions available via gconf-editor weren’t somewhere in Control Centre or Yast.
On 2011-09-24 13:26, RubyTuesday wrote:
> No I didn’t (typical for me!) - and the info I posted and you quoted I
> deleted afterwords after realising I had confused myself by using a
> terminal logged in with ssh to another computer, clearly a bad day!
>
> I only responded on this thread because after searching for any
> problems launching gconf-editor I came across it in the first couple of
> pages of search results. I was surprised too that the functions
> available via gconf-editor weren’t somewhere in Control Centre or Yast.
Not in YaST, because these are user settings, not system settings. Plus, it
is a gnome, upstream maintained app, while YaST is SUSE only.
And, gnome hides advanced configuration. They keep things simple.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)