Hi, everyone.
I’m just starting with fedora, and I would like to change the login background. Could you help me, please?
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“1. Click Background to open the panel. The current selections for Background and Lock Screen are shown at the top.”
Those options don’t exist.
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Yes. In the last GNOME version, this option is no more available.
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Sorry, I didn’t cross check the information linked. I know I had used Settings before to set a different lock screen than user background. I guess they removed the option to be able to create the fancy login screen as it is today.
I did a quick search and found this extension:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1476/unlock-dialog-background/
(This is for the Unlock screen, not the login screen after you booted your machine)
From an end-user perspective, it seems weird that you need an extension for such basic setting…
Thanks, but I would like to change the login background.
For some stupid reason GDM makes this quite complicated.
There are instructions on the Arch Linux wiki you could try. I haven’t tested them myself.
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go to login window option in menu
and also remember to place you wallpaper in the /usr/share/backgrounds folder otherwise it result in black background in login screen
Do you mean the login screen where you have the fedora logo on the bottom? If so:
gsettings set org.gnome.login-screen logo 'full-path-to-image'
default image is /usr/share/pixmaps/fedora-gdm-logo.png
Not sure if you are still looking to do this, but the method I used is found here: DebugPoint - How to Change Login Screen Background in Fedora Workstation. I used this method on a ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 running Fedora 35 with no issues.
Be aware that the small blue Fedora logo is still present (at the location mentioned in this thread by @tachi). I assume one could edit that .png file to be fully transparent and make it go away, but I cannot say if that would work, or if it is safe.
That’s the file with the login manager background:
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
it points to this default image:
background=/usr/share/backgrounds/default.png
The simplest way I found was to just replace the default.png file
And I removed the xml file, it does some fancy animation and change the image based on time of the day but all I wanted was a simple static background. this is what I typed:
cd /usr/share/backgrounds/
sudo mv default.xml default.xml_bak
sudo mv default.png default.png_bak
sudo mv f36 f36_bak
sudo cp “your_image_path” /usr/share/backgrounds/default.png
logout and you’ll get an updated image
I seem to be a little late to the party by a few yrs.
It took longer to type the reply than complete the task at hand.
I’m too lazy to do all the steps bunker listed.
- saved image I wanted to use *.jpg as default.png
- renamed / mv existing appending bak to the end
- mv my preferred and renamed image to /user/share/backgrounds
good to go