Really dumb complaint - we hate the light- brown desktop at the start!

[Edgars Šmits]

Sorry, I misspoke myself. The first paragraph below should read:

I went back and found the exchange in question. Line 61 in
/etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom already is set to black.

On 10/26/07, Edgars Šmits <ed.smits at gmail.com> wrote:
> I went back and found the exchange in question. Line 61 in my
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default already is set to black
>
> BackgroundColor=#000000
>
> so that isn't the solution.
>
> Mike.G then said there was a known bug (Bug #140821 in gdm) and still
> open, and to change the colour you need to manually edit line 61
> (backcolor) of the /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default script, where the
> light-brown is hard-coded. I just did that, restarted GDM, and voila!
> the hated background is no longer visible at all, we go straight to
> black, then our desktop image gets loaded.
>
> Many thanks, especially to Mike G. who originally provided the answer
> and to NoOp who reminded me of it.
>
> ED
>
>
> On 10/26/07, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > See the "how to change the yellow background color?" thread & the reply
> > from Benjamin Kircher.
>