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

[Edgars Šmits]

To make the change:

manually edit line 61(backcolor) of

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default

It will probably be #dab082, I changed mine to #000000 which is black

Save and restart GDM (Ctrl + Alt + Backspace)

ED

On 10/26/07, Paul S <paulatgm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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