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justasug

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Registered: 2014-08-03

Posts: 174

Per user background with LightDM

I am trying to get LightDM with the GTK greeter to display a different background for each user. I saw such functionality on pre-configured distributions.
LightDM seems to use AccountsService for a lot of things. The config file for each user has a "background=" line. I checked the AccountsService and LightDM config files on those pre-configured distributions and they did exactly that. Editing those two things, the user background for my user in the AccountsService file and the line which enables user backgrounds in LightDM, didn't yield any results. I checked the directory and file permissions and they're okay (755). There's nothing in the journal for LightDM regarding any errors.

Did anyone else get this to work or does anyone have any pointers on what to try next?

snowhog

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Registered: 2016-02-20

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Re: Per user background with LightDM

Empty the caches and logout/login again.

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justasug

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Registered: 2014-08-03

Posts: 174

Re: Per user background with LightDM

I deleted the content of /var/cache/lightdm, rebooted and nothing changed.

EDIT: After some searching I have found the reason. The background switching ability was patched in (Debian patches HERE for AccountsService). I didn't get to make that patch work on Arch with my meagre patch knowledge. I assume it's because it requires some of the other ones too.

Last edited by justasug (2016-03-12 12:36:09)