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mariusmeyer

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From: Norway

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 244

[SOLVED] Gnome and gdm is not themed after reinstall

Hi all.

I messed up my Arch install yesterday, so today I reinstalled my system. I normally use Gnome, so I installed everything I normally install. (only things not installed from group gnome is epiphany and gnome-termial, as I use lxterminal instead)
But as I reboot into GDM I find myself surprised: normally GDM will display the green leaf background on me, and after I log in this will be the desktop background. However, this is not the case now. GDM presents a plain black background, and what's more, when I try to change the background in gnome-appearance-preferences, the background image does not change! The only changes I get are the background colors belonging to each background. What has happened since the last time I installed??

Thank you for any help

EDIT: Seems a missing HAL was the problem. Even though GDM no longer depends on HAL, installing HAL and adding it to DAEMONS in rc.conf solved everything for me.

Last edited by mariusmeyer (2010-11-09 06:05:29)