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Changing gdm theme in dapper not possible

Bug #36681 reported by antitude
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

It's not possible to change the default GDM theme in dapper flight 5 (also confirmed for beta 2). I tried both gdmsetup and manually editing the config file in /etc/gdm, but everytime i restart gdm it still comes up with the default human theme

It seems that the Human theme has been hardcoded. Deleting the Human theme and selecting another throws and error at the login screen. The selected theme cannot be loaded and instead a default error login screen is used.

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Daniel Robitaille (robitaille) wrote :

Works for me, and I was able to switch between the various gdm themes.

The one thing I noticed is that the UI of gdmsetup is a bit picky: you cannot simply click on the image of the theme you want to select it, but you have to go click on the tiny little button on the left-hand column to make sure the theme is selected.

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antitude (moonchiild) wrote :

i just tried changing the it and seems to work in a fresh install. however in does not work for me after doing a dist-upgrade

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Daniel Robitaille (robitaille) wrote :

When I tried it and it worked, it was in a recent install of Dapper Flight 5, not a dist-upgrade

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. Are the changes written to /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom?

Changed in gdm:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Jacob (jacobvanbenthem) wrote :

I have the same problem. The problem persists through to the current dapper beta release, I was hoping it would fix with updates but it hasn't. I am pretty new to linux but I try to figure out my own problems but this one has me stumped. Looking through documentation on GDM i should have a /etc/gdm/custom.conf file but I don't. I open up gdmsetup put in my password and It seems to work but then any changes I make, not just the greeter but I tried to disable the sound and make the greeting custom, are not saved. I tried before to change it manually but that also didn't work for some reason even though I told the file to save it reverted back to the default. The only way I got it to work was to delete the human theme and to change the folder of the theme I wanted to use to be called human, which is a really backwards messed up way of doing it any help would be appreciated.

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emisca (emisca-email) wrote :

I've solved the problem this way:
- open login setup under gnome (as user with sudo)
- select plain login
- logout
- gdm should display as plain login
- login
- open login setup and select the theme you want...
- logout
- it works!!

Bye...

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Simon Gray (simongray) wrote :

I have the same problem using Dapper Beta 2.

description: updated
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could somebody having the issue attach his /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and gdm.conf-custom?

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Your bug lacks information we would need to investigate further. We
are now going to close the bug - please reopen if you have more
information at hand.

Changed in gdm:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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