Comments on: How to Change Your Login And Boot Screen In Ubuntu Lucid

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:22:00 +0000

Works well on 10.04LTS Thanks!

By: Ghgieger

Ghgieger — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:00:00 +0000

to stop the appearance set up page from use the following command.

sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop

By: Twig Mac

Twig Mac — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:29:00 +0000

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing!

By: Eric S

Eric S — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:26:00 +0000

you have to have utf-8 fonts installed or you just get block text.

By: Eric S

Eric S — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:25:00 +0000

yeah, it has to be a .png of 500K or less.

By: Gunter_lab

Gunter_lab — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:20:00 +0000

the only problem is that it keeps opening the background settings every time i log in
how can i stop that?

By: Thong Nguyen

Thong Nguyen — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:20:00 +0000

how to change the size of boot screen?

By: AMcG

AMcG — Sun, 29 May 2011 15:51:00 +0000

Tx. Tried login screen change for 11.04 and works well.

By: Lbmagma360

Lbmagma360 — Sat, 28 May 2011 02:23:00 +0000

It’s not working for me. I’m using Ubuntu 10.10.
Every time I add my image, which is a .jpg, a blank screen appears instead of the image.
Any ideas about fixing this issue will be of great help.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 08 May 2011 01:31:00 +0000

worked thanks

By: Icemanblogger

Icemanblogger — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:06:00 +0000

i’ve lost my login text on 10.10 and 11.04 after cp or linking it to login boot, its appears as square fonts… any help?

By: akshay birajdar

akshay birajdar — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:46:00 +0000

great its work on linux mint 10…. thanx buddy!!!!!!!!!

By: Omer

Omer — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:48:00 +0000

thanks buddy……… using Lucid Lynx

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:08:00 +0000

Use the above steps to first change the background. Next, open your Nautilus (as root) and navigate to the wallpaper folder and delete the wallpaper, if that is what you mean by “remove”.

By: deww

deww — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:14:00 +0000

how to remove backgrounds that you have added from the usr directory??

By: Terrytheguy

Terrytheguy — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:38:00 +0000

worked for me, ubuntu 10.10
thank you ~

By: Prometheus

Prometheus — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:22:00 +0000

Woops, now it seems to have disappeared after all:) So disregard my previous post.
Thanks again:)

By: Prometheus

Prometheus — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:15:00 +0000

Hi, thanks for the guide:)

I managed to change the login background, but the step where I write:
sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop
doesn’t work for me, so I’m stuck with the appearance-selector when I want to log in (I’m using ubuntu 10.10, so I guess there have been some small changes since this guide was made). Anyway, do you have any ideas on how I might solve it? Listing the contents of the /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/ directory in case it helps:)

at-spi-registryd-wrapper.desktop libcanberra-ready-sound.desktop
gdm-simple-greeter.desktop metacity.desktop
gnome-mag.desktop onboard.desktop
gnome-power-manager.desktop orca-screen-reader.desktop
gnome-settings-daemon.desktop

By: AC

AC — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:31:00 +0000

Worked for me in LM10. Thanks!

By: legion1978

legion1978 — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:29:00 +0000

Hi..
Do u guys know where this config gets written? i want to [try to] make the background to change randomly, so i figure that making a script rewriting the specific background entry might work.

thnx