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

Paul S paulatgm at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 13:19:23 UTC 2007


Janne Jokitalo said the following on 10/26/2007 02:23 AM:
> Hello Edgars,
> 
> I'm sorry, but you're not making any sense here. See, first you provide us that:
> 
> Edgars Å mits 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.
> 
> Fair enough, but then:
> 
>> 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!
> 
> Okay, first you tell me you've already changed line 61 in
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default, and it doesn't make any difference, but then
> you say that changing the line 61 in /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default is the
> solution?
> 
> Surely there's an explanation, other than my eyes not seeing the right
> things here. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 

Thanks for bringing this up.  I also would like to change this .. can 
you show which line you changed in which file, exactly as it is to 
correct the problem.

regards,




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