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Background color on login window

Asked by Drakkor

Ok, right after login the background color of the screen is a bright peach color.
I have gone to System>Administration>Login Window>Local tab>Background color,
and have changed the bright peach color to black, but it still stays the bright peach color !!!

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Francesco Conti (madmoose) said : 		#1

Right click on desktop
Select "Change desktop background"
Set Colors to "Solid Color" then click the box to the right of "Solid Color" and choose black (or whatever color you desire)

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Drakkor (mkantrim) said : 		#2

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately that doesn't work either,still the peach screen.

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Francesco Conti (madmoose) said : 		#3

it's so strange.....I've just verified. It works on Feisty.
I'll try later on Gutsy.

Please verify black is now selected in both background and login window preferences

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Drakkor (mkantrim) said : 		#4

yeah,just made 2 screenshots,but unfortunately, I don't think this site will allow uploads,anyway
same problem.

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Drakkor (mkantrim) said : 		#5

just got an email]
 Status: Answered => Solved

You confirmed that the question is solved:
yeah,just made 2 screenshots,but unfortunately, I don't think this site will allow uploads,anyway
same problem.
Where on earth did anyone see this question solved ??????????

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Francesco Conti (madmoose) said : 		#6

I think you had set question as solved (only you can set it) by mistake.

sorry don't know if and how you can attach screenshots here.

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Best sin0 (2004r6) said : 		#7

I found the answer:

The problem is in the file etc/gdm/PreSession/Default
I opened the file with nano as root, and changed the last line of code:

# Default value
  if [ "x$BACKCOLOR" = "x" ]; then
   BACKCOLOR="#000000"

BACKCOLOR was a value that is that peach you wanna get rid of and 000000 is black.

With that change, there is now lovely black till the desktop....

Cheers,
sin0

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Drakkor (mkantrim) said : 		#8

Thanks sin0, that solved my question.

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Drakkor (mkantrim) said : 		#9

yeah, I basically did that before,bur must have omitted the # character , but had the 000000 ,and it did boot,but with no ubuntu logo,or progress bar. Thanks for solving this !