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chdslv

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Registered: 2015-08-24

Posts: 51

[SOLVED]Lightdm background not loading

Lightdm loads, but has a black background. The background wallpaper is in pixmaps.
/var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log says,

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:587): WARNING **: [Background] Failed to load background: Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/Araliya.jpg ': No such file or directory

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:587): WARNING **: [Background] Failed to read wallpaper: /usr/share/pixmaps/Araliya.jpg

But, the file Araliya.jpg is there in /usr/share/pixmaps and the owner is root.

Everything done as in the Arch Lightdm wiki page.
Any solution?
Thanks.

Last edited by chdslv (2015-09-08 10:04:20)

KoboldDresden

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From: Dresden, Germany

Registered: 2015-08-27

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED]Lightdm background not loading

My background picture for lightdm is in /usr/share/pixmaps too, but PNG.

Last edited by KoboldDresden (2015-09-05 17:37:57)

chdslv

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Registered: 2015-08-24

Posts: 51

Re: [SOLVED]Lightdm background not loading

My background picture for lightdm is in /usr/share/pixmaps too, but PNG.

I changed the file to a png one, but still the same problem. /var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:579): WARNING **: [Background] Failed to load background: Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/Araliya.png ': No such file or directory

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:579): WARNING **: [Background] Failed to read wallpaper: /usr/share/pixmaps/Araliya.png 

Can anyone help?

chdslv

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Registered: 2015-08-24

Posts: 51

Re: [SOLVED]Lightdm background not loading

Everything in lightdm-gtk-greeter loads, except the background image. I tested exactly the same in an Ubuntu based distro, and it loads there.

In Ubuntu based distro, there is no lightdm.conf file in /etc/lightdm folder, while there is one in Arch.

If anyone here has Lightdm working, could you check your lightdm.conf and lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf and let me know?

Tutti

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Registered: 2015-02-26

Posts: 117

Re: [SOLVED]Lightdm background not loading

Are you sure that the path/filename is correct? What do you have in lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf?

Zucca

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From: KUUSANKOSKI, Finland

Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 135

Re: [SOLVED]Lightdm background not loading

Lightdm loads, but has a black background. The background wallpaper is in pixmaps.
/var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log says,

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:587): WARNING **: [Background] Failed to load background: Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/Araliya.jpg ': No such file or directory

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:587): WARNING **: [Background] Failed to read wallpaper: /usr/share/pixmaps/Araliya.jpg

But, the file Araliya.jpg is there in /usr/share/pixmaps and the owner is root.

I think the problem lies in Failed to load background: Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/Araliya.jpg ': No such file or directory.
Did you see it?
There's an empty space after '.jpg'. Maybe LightDM tries to search for 'Araliya.jpg ' while instead it should be looking for 'Araliya.jpg'.
Check the config again.

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torors

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Registered: 2012-09-28

Posts: 107

Re: [SOLVED]Lightdm background not loading

I have my background set under the [greeter] section in the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf. It's a .jpg-file and works well.

chdslv

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Registered: 2015-08-24

Posts: 51

Re: [SOLVED]Lightdm background not loading

Lightdm loads, but has a black background. The background wallpaper is in pixmaps.
/var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log says,

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:587): WARNING **: [Background] Failed to load background: Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/Araliya.jpg ': No such file or directory

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:587): WARNING **: [Background] Failed to read wallpaper: /usr/share/pixmaps/Araliya.jpg

But, the file Araliya.jpg is there in /usr/share/pixmaps and the owner is root.

I think the problem lies in Failed to load background: Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/Araliya.jpg ': No such file or directory.
Did you see it?
There's an empty space after '.jpg'. Maybe LightDM tries to search for 'Araliya.jpg ' while instead it should be looking for 'Araliya.jpg'.
Check the config again.

Thank you Zucca. You were right!

Zeioth

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Registered: 2016-01-04

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED]Lightdm background not loading

This is super old but I don't see the answer.

You must give permissions to lightdm to read your personal directory:
sudo setfacl -R u:lightdm:rwx $HOME

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: [SOLVED]Lightdm background not loading

There's no mention of the home directory and the issue has been solved. Your solution is for a different problem.

Closing this old topic.