wallpaper-change-not-work

[Daniele Castrovilli]

After ubuntu 12.04, changing wallpaper does not change the lightdm background on login, it's stupid, but quite annoying just because it's a good feature.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: lightdm 1.5.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-13.23-generic 3.8.3
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 21 14:17:59 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-06 (42 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130205)
LightdmConfig:
 [SeatDefaults]
 user-session=ubuntu
 greeter-session=unity-greeter
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thanks, that just got fixed this morning, see bug #1128492

[Daniele Castrovilli (danielestrife)]

yes but not with custom wallpapers, it works only with Ubuntu's default

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's a known issue due to permissions (other users, including the login screen, are not allowed to read you private images), see bug #928553

[Daniele Castrovilli (danielestrife)]

Yes , but in 12.04 this not happen, i can use every wallpaper in my folder "Images" and lightdm changes it's background in line with the wallpaper choose, maybe this could help.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is that on the same machine? maybe on your 12.04 the Images folder of your user is accessible to other users?

[Daniele Castrovilli (danielestrife)]

Same machine sir, and in every fresh install on every machine, i haven't changed nothing in permissions , everything is on default.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, not sure what's happening then, that doesn't make sense, the greeter is a separate users and should have access to your private files, if it's working on 12.04 it seems a bug there

[Daniele Castrovilli (danielestrife)]

Haha so strange so, yes every custom wallpaper from /image folder is read by default without changing anything