In my install of Rawhide, gdm has a flat black background,
but in Fedora 34 Beta, it is a blue background that is different shades of blue across the screen, sort of fading from one spot to another.
Just curious if this is intentional.
I believe this might be what some people refer to as being "more polished." Right ?
and if there is an easy way to adjust the background ?
I think maybe that I once changed the background using a text editor and a config file, but don't remember what desktop environment I was using then, nor what display manager.
David Locklear
On 3/29/21 10:01 AM, David wrote:
In my install of Rawhide, gdm has a flat black background,
but in Fedora 34 Beta, it is a blue background that is different shades of blue across the screen, sort of fading from one spot to another.
Just curious if this is intentional.
Most likely. There is a new wallpaper created for each release, but rawhide is separate. I've never installed rawhide, so I have no idea what the default is for it.
and if there is an easy way to adjust the background ?
There are a few ways to do it, but what I just tried might be the simplest. It also opens a fairly large security hole, so make sure you follow all steps to clean it up at the end. (Rebooting will also reset it.)
Open a terminal and run "xhost +". (Security hole.) Then run "sudo -i" and enter your user password to become root. Run "sudo -u gdm gnome-control-center". That will bring up the settings interface for the gdm user. Careful what you change in there, you're just there for the background. Make the changes, then quit. Press ^D or type "exit" to get out of the root user. Then run "xhost -" to close the security hole.