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A configuration tool for the LightDM display manager
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Appearance/Background/Background problem #43

Closed zcx2020 closed 3 years ago

zcx2020 commented 4 years ago

I have two LM-19.3 Cinnamon x64 machines here. Both have been upgraded from 19.1 -> 19.2 -> 19.3. Both fully up to date.

Both have user desktop backgrounds selected from LM selections. Both have defaults set in lightdm-settings, in particular Draw user background is ON.

When I start up lightdm-settings I get this message on both machines...

$ sudo lightdm-settings $ Could not load /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. lightdm version: 1.26.0

On machine A setting Draw user background set to OFF works correctly.

On machine B the pre-login default background has changed (apparently spontaneously) to /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/default_background.jpg, even though Draw user background is still set to ON.

As a workaround I have redirected the /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/default_background.jpg link to the user desktop file in /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint-tessa folder, set this as the background in lightdm-settings and set Draw user background to OFF.

Is there something else in the configuration that could have changed?

clefebvre commented 3 years ago

That's the way it's supposed to work. If draw user backgrounds is disabled, it shows the background set as background to all users (and that by default points to /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/default_background.jpg). If it's enabled it shows the selected user's background.