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#1 2008-10-22 08:39:45

ikithme
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Lock screen?

Ok this is a bit hard to explain. When I upgraded to gnome 2.24 I set my screensaver to blank and set the option to have a password dialogue box to pop when I try to get back in. All fine and dandy. But now when I move the mouse it displays the blade of grass from previous gnome instead of the black screen it used to show. How in the world do I get to to be unlock screen on black background again?

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#2 2008-10-22 12:24:47

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Re: Lock screen?

Posting a few screen shots may help us help you.

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#3 2008-10-22 12:48:22

tntcoda
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Re: Lock screen?

I have this same problem, its definently something new with 2.24. I really hope theres somewhere it can be turned off?

Basically the lock screen now has a custom background defined (grass), where as previously it was just black.

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#4 2008-10-22 13:03:15

JGC
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Re: Lock screen?

The recent gnome-screensaver should read your background preferences from gconf to show the same background as your normal desktop background. It's bugged however, which makes it always show the default background. A bug is already reported upstream, but there's no action taken on it yet.

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#5 2008-10-22 13:28:41

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Re: Lock screen?

JGC wrote:

The recent gnome-screensaver should read your background preferences from gconf to show the same background as your normal desktop background. It's bugged however, which makes it always show the default background. A bug is already reported upstream, but there's no action taken on it yet.

And what if you don't set your background with gnome/nautilus ?


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#6 2008-10-22 21:51:43

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Re: Lock screen?

Having this problem too. Will wait for upstream to fix smile

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#7 2008-10-22 22:46:01

moljac024
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Re: Lock screen?

In the meantime we can all just create an all black image and save it as /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg big_smile


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#8 2008-11-11 16:42:39

LordChaos73
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Re: Lock screen?

Seems like this is not a bug at all:

http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-scree … ision=1438

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#9 2008-11-11 21:41:19

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Re: Lock screen?

Well that's annoying hmm

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#10 2008-11-29 16:08:25

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Re: Lock screen?

replacing /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg with another picture does not solve it on my comp.. now I just get a full green screen instead of this greeny grass big_smile
hope they fix it soon


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#11 2009-01-13 15:38:57

flowheat
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Re: Lock screen?

pootzko wrote:

replacing /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg with another picture does not solve it on my comp.. now I just get a full green screen instead of this greeny grass big_smile
hope they fix it soon

Same thing happens for me, really quite annoying.

Any update on when/if this will be fixed upstream?

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#12 2009-01-13 21:34:56

fukawi2
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Re: Lock screen?

Are your permissions and ownership on the file correct?

$ ll /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136K 2008-11-12 09:23 /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg

Last edited by fukawi2 (2009-01-13 21:35:11)

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#13 2009-01-14 00:40:46

flowheat
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Re: Lock screen?

 ls -l /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/
total 744
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2008-09-27 17:04 abstract
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265046 2009-01-13 10:35 background-default.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 477420 2009-01-13 10:35 background-default.jpg.bak
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2008-09-27 17:04 nature

Looks right to me.

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#14 2009-01-14 02:46:27

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Re: Lock screen?

That's strange -- I'm out of ideas, sorry hmm

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#15 2009-01-14 13:27:43

flowheat
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Re: Lock screen?

Thanks for trying anyway.  Not a real showstopper just a minor annoyance.

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#16 2009-01-14 15:07:59

arch_nemesis
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Re: Lock screen?

^^FWIW Changing the default image *did* work for me, so there's something else in play here.  I don't know what to think it would be, however.

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#17 2009-01-14 22:12:37

flummoxed
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Re: Lock screen?

How exactly do you *disable* this option entirely? I've lazily looked through menus, but I haven't found anything on it...

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#18 2009-01-14 22:20:22

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#19 2009-01-17 01:07:20

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Re: Lock screen?

it has been some time since then (so some updates were made), and now i tried replacing the image again and it worked...


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#20 2009-07-07 16:53:21

lamnk
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Re: Lock screen?

Bump ...

Changing /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg doesnt help, my lock screen background is now always grey

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#21 2010-01-03 05:54:08

azul
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Re: Lock screen?

You want to look at /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml

Specifically, you want the section:

<dir name="background">
                    ...
                    <entry name="secondary_color" mtime="1262491977" type="schema" stype="string" owner="gnome">
                        <local_schema locale="C" short_desc="Secondary Color">
                            <default type="string">
                                <stringvalue>#1166aa</stringvalue>
                            </default>
                            <longdesc>Right or Bottom color when drawing gradients, not used for solid color.</longdesc>
                        </local_schema>
                    </entry>
                    <entry name="primary_color" mtime="1262491977" type="schema" stype="string" owner="gnome">
                        <local_schema locale="C" short_desc="Primary Color">
                            <default type="string">
                                <stringvalue>#1166aa</stringvalue>
                            </default>
                            <longdesc>Left or Top color when drawing gradients, or the solid color.</longdesc>
                        </local_schema>
                    </entry>
                    ...
</dir>

Those hex values are by default #66ba00 if you want to search for them that way (assuming you haven't changed these somehow), but this is indeed the perpetrating codeblock. The trick here is that you must reboot in order to see results! Other parts of this code let you change the path to the background image, as opposed to copying over the default, etc. tongue

Hope this helps!

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#22 2010-02-15 05:41:47

ZeroTruths
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Re: Lock screen?

I know this is an old thread, but I'm going to bump it for good reason.
I ran into this problem as well, and as a solution, I created a simlink to my current wallpaper. It worked the first time (making sure permissions remained the same)

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#23 2010-02-15 21:58:56

fukawi2
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Re: Lock screen?

Gnome has a "Make Default" button on the wallpaper selection window now big_smile

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#24 2010-03-24 00:41:43

sjb933
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Re: Lock screen?

Hey fukawi, where is this claimed "Make Default" button.  I don't see it.

-Shane

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#25 2010-03-24 10:11:58

moljac024
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Re: Lock screen?

It's a fedora patch, it's not there in vanilla gnome.


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