GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 112169
Support animated greeter icons
Last modified: 2010-06-04 21:05:49 UTC
Description of Problem: The standard greeter lets the administrator provide logo and background images. The displayed images do not change (e.g., are not reloaded) when the files containing the images change. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Set up a logo image for the standard greeter. 2. Use crontab to replace the file containing the logo image with a different image (in the same file, or at least a file with the same name). 3. Log out and watch the standard greeter screen. Actual Results: The image displayed for the standard greeter logo does not change until you log in and log back out again. Desired Results: Around the time the underlying image file is changed, it would be nice if the standard greeter would detect that change and redraw the screen with the new image. How often does this happen? 100% of the time. Additional Information: I'd like to use some kind of dynamic, live data for my greeter, such as a weather radar image. I have crontab all set up with the appropriate wget's, but the greeter isn't ready to support this function.
Changed keywords to GNOMEVER2.3 since this is a feature request.
Why don't you just run a BackgroundProgram (look in the config file) that sets the root window?
See related bug #369023.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use. By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME. Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME.