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Equinoxx

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Registered: 2017-09-09

Posts: 24

Lightdm login Background Doesn't load

Hi all,

Using lightdm the background image at the loggin panel doesn't display... it looks to be the same issue as chdslv was having in this thread:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=202029

the only problem is that

/var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log

returns with no file / directory. The only other interesting point is that

lightdm --test-mode debug

shows the desired image in the mini-window pop up.

thanks for the help

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,877

Re: Lightdm login Background Doesn't load

Did you check your journal? For a wild guess, lightdm might have moved its log there.

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loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Lightdm login Background Doesn't load

What is the output of

# ls -la /var/log/lightdm

Equinoxx

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Registered: 2017-09-09

Posts: 24

Re: Lightdm login Background Doesn't load

What is the output of

# ls -la /var/log/lightdm

ls -la /var/log/lightdm
total 48
drwxrwxrwx 2 root lightdm  4096 Sep 12 10:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root     4096 Sep 12 10:04 ..
-rw------- 1 root root    12571 Sep 12 10:04 lightdm.log
-rw------- 1 root root     5788 Sep 12 09:50 lightdm.log.old
-rw------- 1 root root     1335 Sep 12 10:04 seat0-greeter.log
-rw------- 1 root root     1335 Sep 12 10:00 seat0-greeter.log.old
-rw------- 1 root root      884 Sep 12 10:04 x-0.log
-rw------- 1 root root      943 Sep 12 10:04 x-0.log.old

Equinoxx

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Registered: 2017-09-09

Posts: 24

Re: Lightdm login Background Doesn't load

Did you check your journal? For a wild guess, lightdm might have moved its log there.

journalctl -D /home/test/.cache/lightdm-gtk-greeter/
No journal files were found.
-- No entries --

- my user is test..

no entries were found for lightdm either.

seth

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From: Won't reply 2 private help req

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,877

Re: Lightdm login Background Doesn't load

Well, there's still a bunch of promising files in /var/log/lightdm - did you look at them?

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