Bug#756988: desktop-base: please provide a background for GDM 3 and its screen lock mode

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

2014-12-27 19:58 GMT+02:00 Vincent Blut <vincent.debian@free.fr>:
> Le sam. 27 déc. 2014 à 18:38, Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>
> a écrit :
>>
>> Package: desktop-base
>> Followup-For: Bug #756988
>>
>> While 8.0.1 in principle introduced new background images for GDM
>> (Thanks!), GDM still shows its default gray background.
>>
>> Running 'gksudo -u Debian-gdm gnome-tweak-tool' confirms that lines.xml
>> and lines-lockscreen.xml are correctly configured in the dconf keys, so I'm
>> guessing that the problem is somewhere else e.g. hard-coded paths in the
>> gdm3 package.
>
>
> Hi Martin-Éric,
>
> In fact, there is no issue. Only the default *lock* screen background has
> been changed.
> The *login* screen background is hard-coded in
> '/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css'
> (see the '#lockDialogGroup' CSS ID).

Good to know.

I'm just surprised that this would not default to the new theme, since
previous Debian releases would configure the GDM background to
whatever theme would be the default provided by desktop-base.

Martin-Éric