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Ubuntu Lock Screen Background

  • 23-05-2011 6:39pm
    #1
    MungBean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭


    Anyone have any idea how to change the lock screen background and set a single image as the screensaver on Ubuntu ? I want to set the same image as screensaver and lock screen background so it just looks like the dialog box appears when you go to log in.

    Posted these questions on Ubuntu Forum but seeing as they dont bother answering half the time I thought I'd try here too.


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  • #2
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    gksu nautilus /usr/share/backgrounds/
    And replace whatever's in there with the one you want?


  • #3
    MungBean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    BopNiblets wrote: »
    gksu nautilus /usr/share/backgrounds/
    And replace whatever's in there with the one you want?

    Thats just where the normal backgrounds are. Will changing anything there affect the lock screen ?


  • #4
    OctavarIan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    Install Ubuntu Tweak, you can change login settings easily within that. It's actually one of the best apps you could possibly install on Ubuntu, love it.


  • #5
    MungBean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    OctavarIan wrote: »
    Install Ubuntu Tweak, you can change login settings easily within that. It's actually one of the best apps you could possibly install on Ubuntu, love it.

    Thanks, I dont see any option to tweek the Lock Screen though. Just Log in preferences.


  • #6
    OctavarIan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    Skunkle wrote: »
    Thanks, I dont see any option to tweek the Lock Screen though. Just Log in preferences.

    Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/hMCo5.png

    Click 'Login Settings' on the menu, scroll down a bit, click on the 'unlock' button (assuming you have a user password set, if not that step shouldn't matter) then click on the image to set your own background.

    I'm using version 0.5.13 of Ubuntu Tweak and Ubuntu 10.10 if it helps.


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  • #7
    PrzemoF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭PrzemoF


    Skunkle wrote: »
    Posted these questions on Ubuntu Forum but seeing as they dont bother answering half the time I thought I'd try here too.
    Please don't take it as an offence, but in linux world a lack of answer often means you asked wrong/easy to google question...

    The very first shoot on google: http://linux.wxs.ro/2009/04/22/change-gnome-lock-screen-background/

    Let us know if it works..


  • #8
    MungBean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    OctavarIan wrote: »
    Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/hMCo5.png

    Click 'Login Settings' on the menu, scroll down a bit, click on the 'unlock' button (assuming you have a user password set, if not that step shouldn't matter) then click on the image to set your own background.

    I'm using version 0.5.13 of Ubuntu Tweak and Ubuntu 10.10 if it helps.

    Changing the login image doesnt affect the lock screen though. Not for me anyway.


  • #9
    MungBean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    PrzemoF wrote: »
    Please don't take it as an offence, but in linux world a lack of answer often means you asked wrong/easy to google question...

    The very first shoot on google: http://linux.wxs.ro/2009/04/22/change-gnome-lock-screen-background/

    Let us know if it works..

    No offence taken. I have googled and tried all sorts but nothing works. That page you suggested was one of the first I came across.

    replace /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg

    I dont have a background/gnome/ in the pixmaps folder so I didnt know where to go from there.

    By the way I'm pretty much a noob on linux so please excuse em if I'm missing something simple.


  • #10
    PrzemoF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭PrzemoF


    I don't have it either on my ubuntu laptop (but I have it on PLD laptop) - sorry for wrong suggestion. I don't have a complete solution for you but:
    sudo gconf-editor
    search for "lock_dialog_theme"

    and links like that:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1074588.html
    and that:
    http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/elementary+lock+screen?content=107792

    should give you a good starting point. Keep us updated!


  • #11
    MungBean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    PrzemoF wrote: »
    I don't have it either on my ubuntu laptop (but I have it on PLD laptop) - sorry for wrong suggestion. I don't have a complete solution for you but:
    sudo gconf-editor
    search for "lock_dialog_theme"

    and links like that:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1074588.html
    and that:
    http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/elementary+lock+screen?content=107792

    should give you a good starting point. Keep us updated!


    Thanks for the help. I have tried those links before too. Found them very hard to understand. I downloaded a different lock theme and couldnt figure out how to replace the old one. I extracted it into the same folder as the default but couldnt select it.

    "sudo gconf-editor
    search for "lock_dialog_theme""

    Searched and found but cant alter them, and when I stick another theme in the same folder it doesnt show in the editor. I think I'm in over my head and I might just bow out for now and tackle it down the road a bit.

    Appreciate everyones help, thanks for all the suggestions.


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