| infinity9 | question about lightdm-gtk-greeter: my login background fades out to the desktop background before i even login. how do i stop it from doing that? | 19:30 |
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| infinity9 | (i'm on a different distro, by the way. just asked in this channel because i saw lightdm-gtk-greeter is on xubuntu's github) | 19:31 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | infinity9, i didn't quite catch you. | 19:36 |
| infinity9 | diogenes_Vx15: i'm using lightdm to login to my xfce desktop. i have it set to display a certain background wallpaper at the login screen. however, when i get to the screen, the wallpaper fades out within a second, showing the desktop wallpaper i would see _after_ i login | 19:37 |
| infinity9 | really, it shouldn't be doing that until after i enter my username and password, so i want to figure out why it's happening | 19:38 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | infinity9, so you want to simply add a different wallpapper for the login screen which will be persistent up until you enter your credentials? | 19:41 |
| infinity9 | it's not so much that i want to add a different one. i just want whatever one i add to be persistent | 19:43 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | how did you add the current one? | 19:44 |
| infinity9 | the standard way. i pointed lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf to an image in /usr/share/lightdm/backgrounds | 19:45 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | infinity9, run: cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf | nc termbin.com 9999 | 19:48 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | share the url | 19:48 |
| infinity9 | i don't have the "nc" command. what package contains it? | 19:51 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | infinity9, netcat | 19:54 |
| infinity9 | diogenes_Vx15: https://termbin.com/rkvub | 19:56 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | infinity9, try to add there: transition-duration = 10000 | 20:00 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | let's see if that makes any difference. | 20:00 |
| infinity9 | diogenes_Vx15: that just caused it to fade slowly over several seconds rather than right away | 20:06 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | infinity9, run: apt-file show lightdm-gtk-greeter | nc termbin.com 9999 | 20:07 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | if you don't have apt-file, install if: sudo apt install apt-file | 20:08 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | after that run: sudo apt-file update | 20:08 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | and only after that run the command i gave you. | 20:09 |
| infinity9 | i'm not running the apt package manager. i'm on gentoo | 20:09 |
| infinity9 | i believe lightdm-gtk-greeter comes with lightdm by default in this distro | 20:10 |
| infinity9 | and i'm on lightdm 1.32.0, which appears to be the most recent version | 20:11 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | infinity9, i thnk there should be something that overrides the config, run: ls /usr/share/lightdm/ | 20:11 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | are there any files? | 20:12 |
| infinity9 | it just contains the "backgrounds" directory | 20:12 |
| infinity9 | i've seen that some users have their images in /usr/share/pixmaps. could that be the issue? | 20:12 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | ok, i'm not familiar with Gentoo but as a workaround you can increase this delay: transition-duration = 100000 | 20:14 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | also add this one: transition-type = none | 20:16 |
| infinity9 | i'll keep looking for a solution. thanks for your help | 20:18 |
| infinity9 | diogenes_Vx15: found it. just had to set user-background to false in lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf | 20:31 |
| infinity9 | thanks again | 20:31 |
| diogenes_Vx15 | infinity9, no problem, glad you figured that out. | 20:31 |
| xu-irc21w | Hi, I have just now installed Ubuntu on my Macbook pro mid 2009 15 inches, I completly erased the OS and installed only thUbuntu (I did it on purpose). NOw suince the mac is heating up a lot I would like to install a lighter version like Xubuntu. HOw could I do that? Should I o bott pressing ALT while having a USB stick with ISO of Xubuntu flashed | 21:54 |
| xu-irc21w | with Balena Etcher? | 21:54 |
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