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how to change login screen/background on Lucid lynx (ubuntu 10.04)

ubuntu 10.04 login screen

this is the simple way to change your ubuntu lucid lynx login background (in karmic, you can explore on xsplash folder).
first time, you can go to console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1, then you have to login with your sudoer username
then after logged in, type: “export DISPLAY=:0.0” (without quote) then press enter.
after that, type : “sudo -u gdm gnome-control-center” (without quote) and press enter
it will shows you a pop-up window, choose Appearance>Backgrounds –then simplify find your beloved background on your HDD.
simple, isn’t it??
note: to go back on your GDM press Ctrl+Alt+F8

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8 Responses to 'how to change login screen/background on Lucid lynx (ubuntu 10.04)'

  1. narendra - May 2nd, 2010 at 7:52 am

    How to do it from command line. I need to do it from command line because I am making a custom live CD.

  2. frog - May 3rd, 2010 at 6:57 am

    on my computer it’s ctrl-alt-f7 to return to GDM…

  3. Prakash - May 11th, 2010 at 12:17 am

    Actually ,you may do as below :
    open a terminal

    type :

    export DISPLAY=:0.0 (or whatever is your Display ID is)

    and press enter.
    then ,
    type:

    sudo -u gdm gnome-appearance-properties

    ^There We can change background image etc.

  4. GiString13 - May 29th, 2010 at 5:52 pm

    so I do everything as it says; but when I type in the “sudo -u gdm gnome-control-center” command, I get an error stating that it cannot open a connection to the session bus. What am I doing wrong here?

  5. LK - June 7th, 2010 at 4:21 pm

    To use your current wallpaper for GDM, run:
    sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 –set –type string /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename `gconftool-2 –get /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename`

  6. Germán - June 23rd, 2010 at 5:20 pm

    Thanks, but did not work for me. After pressing enter on “sudo -u gdm gnome-control-center” it tells me:

    (1744) Unique-DBus-WARNING “unable to connect to the running instance”

  7. Helena - July 4th, 2010 at 2:43 am

    Unfortunately, this didn’t work at all for me… When I type sudo -u gdm gnome-control-center I get an error, and that’s all… =( Thank you for your help anyway. =)

    So I’ve done it my own simple way. If anyone wants to see, I’ve written a how to which can be seen here: http://helenagunther.posterous.com/how-to-change-the-ubuntu-login-screen-backgro

  8. grommit - July 9th, 2010 at 5:12 am

    Ok so, i recieved this error;

    (gnome-control-center:3358): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Unable to open a connection to the session bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-9nhyjP3hCY: Connection refused

    (gnome-control-center:3358): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Unable to connect to the running instance, aborting.

    Not sure what this means…


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