Lucid changed background color

[Tom H]

>> > I still wish that the log-in screen didn't show any user by
>> > default.  I dislike having had to to switch to wdm for that (lack
>> > of) functionality.

>> You can change that behaviour by changing gdm's simple-greeter setting
>> with gconf-editor or gconftool-2 as the gdm user

> Thank you, kind sir!  I have looked long for that (very easy)
> configuration.

You are welcome. I am sorry that I was too busy to post the solution
but it has come up a few times here so I guess that Google helped once
you knew about the gconf*... :)