splash screen setup

[Derek Broughton]

Bas van Gils wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:12:27AM -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote:
>  
>> Hmm... the background colour should be changed automagically to the
>> users setting when a user logs in, assuming that user has a background
>> set that is different.  If they users background has never been
>> manually changed, it will take the global default.
>> 
>> Have you tried changing your wife's background manually? (right click
>> on the desktop, change desktop background)
> 
> yep, and that works like a charm. Thing is that it is not the background
> that I am referring to. I want to change the color of the background that
> you see *after* the login-screen and *before* seeing your own desktop
> (i.e. the background of the splash screen)
> 

Yes, the same problem exists for KDE.  You have three background states: the
login manager (GDM/KDM) has one; after login there's another that is
present until the user session is loaded; then there's the users.  Keeping
them all in sync is a pain.  fwiw, the one you're talking about is in the
settings (Kcontrol) / System Administration / Login Manager for KDE.  How
similar that might be to Gnome's settings is anyone's guess :-)
-- 
derek