Support of personnal background on the login screen

[dgeo]

Hi All,

First I want to say that I moved back to KUbuntu with 12.04 (since I used it long ago and moved to Ubuntu) and came back since I could not get round the Unity stuff etc ... I need my menus :p

Anyway, even if I did not like Unity in Ubuntu, there was one thing I liked in the new Ubuntu 12.04 which is the wallpaper being on the background of the login window. Since we need to change the photo by splashscreen etc usually ... I was wondering if there was a plan in the future version to have this feature on KUbuntu ? It would rather be easier to do that since anybody could have their own photo as soon as the login window appears and keep the kogs wheel for KUbuntu when starting up.

By the way, I find the new KUbuntu really good looking, stable and up to all my needs. Thanks for the good work... :D

Dan.

[OneLine]

KDM

KDM help: K > Applications > Help > Control Center Modules > Login Screen

You need to edit the xml file.

Earlier: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?56248-This-SHOULD-be-simple

or use the non themed mode.

KDE System Settings > System Administration > Login Screen

General tab - Appearance - unpick the: Use themed greeter. Then the background option can be used.

http://i.imgur.com/QEwha.png

Known KDM (theme) bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kde-baseapps/+bug/814562
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255453


Lightdm

You need to install the package: lightdm-kde-greeter.

Earlier: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?57401-Lightdm-KDE

KDE System Settings > System Administration > Login Screen (Lightdm)

http://i.imgur.com/a37zS.png

and pick your wallpaper

http://i.imgur.com/SaMvm.png

You could test it with the command:

lightdm --test-mode

http://i.imgur.com/KYT3f.png

Xephyr package is xserver-xephyr.


More links

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?49934-Customizing-Kubuntu
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?56635-KSplashQML
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDM

[dgeo]

Thanks, that did the trick for now ;-) I used the unthemed version with background. I can live with that for now although I would have prefered the themed login window. I was not too successfull with changing the xml file :p
Anyway, something weird when using backgrounds. You have options as "over all screens", "on each screen", "screen 1" and "screen 2" (since I have 2 screens).
When using "over all screens", it stretched it all over, which I obviously don't want. But when I use "on each screen" which I was hoping was to display the background separately on each screen, it does not work out ... O_o
So I used only screen 1 to display background.
Any idea why this is happening ?

Thx,
D.