See pic. How do I add a circle profile pic? And background pic? I googled but did not get any clear directions.
UPDATE: I got the circle profile pic solved. Now just need to figure out how to change the background. Is that possible?
I am using Xfce, but while logged in, a right click on the desktop, desktop settings, change background worked for me, comes up at the login screen now.
It says I need to place a keyfile somewhere. I looked into keyfiles and could not make heads or tails of how to make one. And unfortunately I don’t have the free time to research such a complex task (complex for a newbie like me). I’ll give up here. Thanks anyway. Issue closed.
I changed my desktop screen a few weeks ago using that method. Had no effect on the login screen background.
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Some confusion here?
The “login screen” is from a login program, in a GUI environment better known as (part of) the Display Manager. There are several of them available (SDDM, KDM, GDM, LightDM…) and first you have to find out which one you use.
Now such a DM is independent of the desktop a user may use (after all, there may be many users, all of them gong to use the DE of their choice and the DM can not predict who is going to login and what DE is going to be used). But many DEs have their favorite DM and that one is used as default when at installation a specific DE is chosen. Thus finding out which DM is used might be easy when you know which DE was chosen at installation time.
Each DM has of course it’s own configuration file and man page.
E.g. man lightdm and man sddm. Configuring them thus will differ.
And of course, they are run as system services, thus configuring them requires root. Although a DE system settings tool might offer an interface to the configuration, but it will nevertheless ask fpr the root password.
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Wow. Sounds even more complicated than I thought earlier. Definitely I’ll give up on this.
I only use Gnome Wayland, nothing else. I go into xorg only when I need to do remote access and screen sharing. And no one else uses my laptop, only me. I’m the only user.
You may think so, but the operating system is not designed like that. Thus to understand a lot of what is happening on a Unix/Linux system you must always keep in mind that it is a multi-user and multi-session system.
With that understanding it will be clear that when not logged in as a user, all is running as “the system”.
I do not say it is difficult to have a background picture in your Display Manager’s login screen. It depends on the one used if it is possible and when yes, where to configure it.
And again, there might be an entry in your DE’s (I see it is Gnome) configuration/settings tool to do this, but it will then most probably ask for the root password.
To get personal. I use sddm and have a background picture chosne sometime long ago. But I can not find where it is defined in the sddm config files. So, stupid me.
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Fun project proposal: Write a script to make it easy for a newbie to set the login background image on a Tumbleweed Gnome Wayland system. The newbie runs the script, enters the path and name of the image file and hits enter for the script to complete. Then reboots. The user is also prompted to enter password if needed.
@invalid_user_name See https://github.com/gdm-settings/gdm-settings
It’s available via a user project, I tried it here for running only…
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:mantarimay:GNOME:apps/gdm-settings
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Is the “Logo” just the circular image above the text entry bar? I was able to put my desired image there. It’s the login screen background that I want to change. And that involves keyfiles and other technical stuff beyond my ability (and time).
So if anyone wants to write the “change login screen background” script I (and other newbies) would love it.
Simply use your text editor, create a file named corp-login in the directory /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/
It’s full path would then be /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/corp-login
When you create that file, just copy the text you see in the box at the link @hui gave you into the file and save it.
The explanation at that link would probably have been a little easier to understand if it had called it a text file instead of a key file.
I’m not running gnome, so I won’t test it for you. You may need an additional step to get it working. If so, come back and ask, someone will tell you how.
NOTE: If you learn a few little things like this, it will help you in the long run for just using your system.
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After you create that file, I think you might need to run a command in a terminal:
dconf update
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I’ll dive into this project when I get some free time. The instructions are scattered here and there in this thread and it’ll take me some time pull them together and understand. Thanks for the guidance.
Yes, definitely, but the challenge is I do many (not all) Linux technical tasks just one time and never need to do them again, or I do them again a year or more later. And, without practice, I quickly forget. I try to take notes and that helps. As a non-technical newbie person, I spend 99% of my time in Linux just using the browser and some docs and spreadsheets (and in support forums 
). And my other commitments strongly limit my free time to play around in Linux.
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