Default background colour hardcoded to #2C001E

[Jonathan Davies]

The default background colour for unity-greeter should be customisable. Right now, in src/background.vala, it's hardcoded:

public string default_background {get; set; default = "#2C001E";}

There is a brief moment between plymouth endng and the user's background appearing where this #2C001E background may appear.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Note that the colour is just a workaround for the bug that the first frame is not synchronised with X.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

See also bug 970024 for getting rid of this hack.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Fixed in 0.2.8

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-greeter - 0.2.8-0ubuntu1

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unity-greeter (0.2.8-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Add play-ready-sound option to control making a sound when the greeter
      loads (LP: #949782)
    - Add background-color option to set the background color before the
      background is rendered (LP: #969059)
    - some minor design fixups
  * debian/patches/ui-tweaks.patch:
    - Applied upstream
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:21:34 +1000

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Bug 981335 affects usability of this fix

[Philipp (sacridex)]

Yeah obsiously, you cannot change the LightDM Settings when youre logged in as a regular user.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

"Yeah obsiously, you cannot change the LightDM Settings when youre logged in as a regular user."
That's been made quite clear here & elsewhere
So a user would need to either switch to the lightdm user in a terminal & set options in gsetting or create overrirde file(s) & compile-schemas, not anything any normal user is going to do.

I will say that when the draw-grid option first appeared a user could enable/disable in gsettings
I guess that was considered inappropiate? & now is not allowed

[Philipp (sacridex)]

Added my branch, uses KeyFile(/etc/lightdm/greeter.conf) instead of GSettings.
Also fixes bug #970024
Pls review it.