Background is always black

[WubzyGD]

The issue:

I'm trying to get a background image to show up with aether. I haven't done much of any customization on it other than taking the old backgrounds folder, renaming it to wallpapers-old, making a new one, naming it wallpapers, and placing one image inside of it. This resulted in a black wallpaper (the rest of Aether works fine, just the wallpaper doesn't).

What I've tried:

• I chmoded the folder, then later its file tree, to 777.
• When that didn't work, I was then told to chown it (it was owned by root before). So, I chowned it to my account, wubzy. (Later doing the same with the folder I wanted, both were tested at this point, neither worked.)
• I tried the default value in webkit2-greeter.conf for background_images, as well as trying to set it to the Aether wallpapers dir in src/. Neither worked.
• As a last resort after searching through the issues list and seeing the one that dealt with resolution, I realized the image was in 4k, and I'm in 1080p. So I resized the image to standard 1080x1920 with gwenview, rebooted, and it still didn't work.

I'm probably missing some stupidly obvious step. I did follow the guide on this GH's homepage pretty tightly to the letter, and once again, the rest of the greeter works just fine. Thanks for your time!

[JezerM]

If your wallpapers directory is inside /home, lightdm-webkit2-greeter and LightDM itself won't allow Aether theme to read your wallpapers. The default background_images path is ignored by Aether, so it won't work either. Therefore, you could create a directory at /usr/share/backgrounds/aether (or wherever you want), copy your wallpapers, and set background_images to your desired path.

If the problem persists, or you do not have your wallpapers directory inside /home, then provide the log inside /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log (when using lightdm-webkit2-greeter and Aether theme).

[WubzyGD]

Thanks! I did exactly as you said and made a folder at /usr/share/backgrounds/aether with one wallpaper in it, changed the background_images variable to that, and still got a black screen.

seat0-greeter.log is also empty.

[JezerM]

You could see the issue #111, where seems to be "fixed".

[WubzyGD]

See this comment on a fix.