Question regarding the new login theme and using other gdm themes

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Saturday 03 October 2009 4:23:47 am Dennis Beekman wrote:
> Sadly i have to report that even in the Beta version the loginscreen
> background or colortscheme can not be altered.
> I tried using gdmsetup but this doesn't allow anything to be changed...
> other then automatic/manual login features.
> 
> In the old GDM you could switch the themes off and just have a 
standard
> login windows with a logo and a background....
> Is this feature not going to be part of the new setup ?

You keep repeating "gdmsetup".  Did you try what was suggested in the 
thread: using sudo to change the theme?

gksudo -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-properties

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Mackenzie Morgan
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