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Bug 673195 - cannot change the wallpaper when the screen is locked
cannot change the wallpaper when the screen is locked
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 696166
Product: gnome-screensaver
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-screensaver maintainers
gnome-screensaver maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-03-30 16:16 UTC by javiermon
Modified: 2014-08-19 21:30 UTC
See Also:
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Description javiermon 2012-03-30 16:16:36 UTC 
Hi

I'm using fedora 17 with gnome 3.4 and I cannot change the wallpaper shown on the locked screen. I've tried creating a file with my own dconf settings:

/etc/dconf/db/gdm.d$ cat 01-mysettings 
[org/gnome/desktop/background]
picture-uri='file:///usr/share/themes/Adwaita/backgrounds/adwaita-timed.xml'

and then run dconf update as root

but I see the same wallpaper even after rebooting.

gnome-screensaver --version
gnome-screensaver 3.4.0

Looking though forums and mailing lists I saw gnome-screensaver uses some of the same settings gdm does, but I could change the gdm background and not the screensaver, maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Thanks,
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2012-03-30 22:44:04 UTC 
The current code in gnome-screensaver always uses the system default background, so you can't change it per-user.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2012-03-31 08:14:06 UTC 
Also see bug 649769.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2014-08-19 21:30:15 UTC 
This was fixed in gnome-control-center in GNOME 3.10.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 696166 ***