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paysonwallach / aqua-lightdm-webkit-theme

A macOS-inspired LightDM webkit greeter theme.
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Can't change background image #3

Closed jpmvferreira closed 5 years ago

jpmvferreira commented 5 years ago

After trying to copy my image to usr/share/background/current as specified in style.css, i had an error and asked my if i wanted to use my default theme, the fallback theme or cancel.

When trying to change the default image to a path in my home directory (mounted on a separate partition but it's mounted before login) in style.css and removing the background-color variable even, the background image does not show up.

paysonwallach commented 5 years ago

Sounds like it could be a permissions issue. Is the image file readable by everyone?

jpmvferreira commented 5 years ago

After trying to change the directory of the file, which didn't work, i've used chmod 777 and changed it owner to root, and it works as expected, however adding an extension to the file name, such as .jpg, made it not show up in the login scren, but i do confess, i've yet to understand permissions in linux, so it might have been something that i did wrong along the way.

Thanks!

paysonwallach commented 5 years ago

Glad to hear that you got it working! I would recommend against setting file permissions to 777, as it's a security risk, and 644 is sufficient in this case. You're correct that the symlink must be owned by root, but I don't believe the source image needs to be, thus you can simply use the following command to set the background image:

[sudo] ln -sf /path/to/image /usr/share/backgrounds/current

With regard to file extensions, unix essentially treats the extension as part of the filename, and would consider current and current.jpg to be different files. The reason for using a symlink to the desired image is purely to make my life easier, as I don't have to mess with reading a config file for one option, however I may consider such an implementation if users find it more intuitive.