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Re: gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?



On 23/01/12 18:17, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On 01/22/12 20:52, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:55:42PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>> In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and
>>> less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the
>>> various screen parts.
>>>
>>> The gdm3 login screen by default provides a list of possible users
>>> and their names with a place that looks like it's intended to hold a
>>> picture (or avatar, if you will) of the person.
>>>
>> Here's my gdm login screen:
>> http://tonybaldwin.me/imgs/myGDMloginscreen.jpg
>> Definitely possible to customize it.
>> But, this is on Squeeze, and was done with the GDM Setup
>> in the Debian menu.
>> (I don't know for sure where that is in Gnome, since I'm using openbox,
>> but I would guess
>> Applications>  System>  Administration>  GDM Setup
>>
>>> How does one set that avatar to something more interesting than the
>>> default shadow head?

Locate the default shadow head?
Locate the file mentioning the shadow head?

>> same GDM Setup program offers this, as well.
>>
>> ./tony
> Well, wheezy uses the gnome3 train-wreck.  It doesn't seem to have
> anything resembling
> 
>     Applications>  System>  Administration>  GDM Setup
> 
> I've googled til I'm blue in the face, I've guessed based on my googling
> that I need to manually edit something in the [greeter] section of
> /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf but there doesn't seem to be a human readable
> explanation of the available options I could put there and what they do.
> 
> Any clues are welcome!
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
/usr/share/pixmaps ?


Sorry, don't have a GNOME to check, but gdm shares a some settings with kdm.


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