Comment 15 for bug 536712

I have my Lucid systems up-to-date after the release last Thursday. The behavior I observe with GDM2setup is that I can change the login background the FIRST time - putting the proper image (as bg.jpg) into /usr/share/images/xsplash, with various symlinks - but on subsequent attempts to change the background, an empty file is copied to bg.jpg.

If someone wants to change the background, they can just copy the desired .jpg file to bg.jpg in that directory. The directory contents look like:

peter@mini:/usr/share/images/xsplash$ ls -l bg*.jpg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2010-05-01 15:05 bg_1024x768.jpg -> /usr/share/images/xsplash/bg.jpg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2010-05-01 15:05 bg_1280x1024.jpg -> /usr/share/images/xsplash/bg.jpg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2010-05-01 15:05 bg_1280x800.jpg -> /usr/share/images/xsplash/bg.jpg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2010-05-01 15:05 bg_1440x900.jpg -> /usr/share/images/xsplash/bg.jpg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2010-05-01 15:05 bg_1680x1050.jpg -> /usr/share/images/xsplash/bg.jpg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2010-05-01 15:05 bg_1920x1200.jpg -> /usr/share/images/xsplash/bg.jpg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2010-05-01 15:05 bg_2560x1600.jpg -> /usr/share/images/xsplash/bg.jpg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2010-05-01 15:05 bg_800x600.jpg -> /usr/share/images/xsplash/bg.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24998 2010-05-01 22:09 bg.jpg

A background image with the same aspect ratio as the display would be best. And remember that the login dialog will obscure part of the center of the image.

I am using this image for the login (converted with gimp to .jpg) (Eurasian lynx - "Lynx lynx"):

 http://www.quantum-conservation.org/ESB/lynx-lynx.gif