Comment 1 for bug 440153

salam

i found that Xsplash themes are easy to work arround, You can find the xsplash images in /usr/share/images/xsplash
You can also change the animation style as you like using the png files The current xsplash theme has a bar that shines a light in one direction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOJUY35N-pU

Another exists which looks like an atom nucleur:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StNanFooAu8
http://anotherubuntu.blogspot.com/2009/09/karmic-status-and-artwork-update.html

I think that you can change the default theme from /etc/gdm/Init/Default or just check the ppa package post script

You can also test it out when your done editing by running "sudo xsplash" in the terminal, followed by ctrl-c to close it.

I hope that this will be useful for you,
keep up the good work et allah y3inoukoum
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Sohaib Afifi