Hello community How can I change the Background image of the login screen? You know, with elementaryos 0.3 Freya, the Beta version does include a blue tile background. Or I did not found an system option for that? All the best Mike
I guess there isn't really an option to change that so far. But, it is really simple. As you can see, it is a symbolic link from elementaryos-default to "Blueprint.jpg". Just remove the symlink and add another one. Code (Text): cd /usr/share/backgrounds sudo rm elementaryos-default sudo ln -s Temple.jpg elementaryos-default Where "Temple.jpg" can be every Wallpaper you see there, just edit them. Hope it helps.
I hope elementary will provide an explizit option for this in the future. So far, this workarround is ok, thx. mike
I agree. We should be able to switch the log in wallpaper to something more appealing. Also, we should be able to browse the file system as root. Which right now is difficult w/o workarounds.
Random new find: you can use any image (I assume, mine was 1680x1050) as long as you make elementaryos-default and the image readable by everyone. I have rw - r - r (644)
Apparently the location of the login screen wallpaper is /var/lib/lightdm-data/<username>/wallpaper/<image_name>.jpg You can just switch the image using cp or other command you like. I'm using Elementary OS Loki, btw.