Bug 364329

Summary:	System forgets custom login screen background image
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Scott Moore <scott>
Component:	kcm_sddm	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	gandalflechner, ohyran
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.5.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Scott Moore 2016-06-14 19:11:15 UTC

On Startup and Shutdown, I changed the wallpaper to use for the startup/login screen. However, the change doesn't hold. On reboot, it's back to that rainbow picture that came with the OS.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. change background image for login screen under Startup and Shutdown
2. reboot
3. observe that no change took place

Comment 1 Jens Reuterberg 2016-07-09 04:10:19 UTC

I have the same issues on 5.6 and 5.7 - the reason I think is because when you select an image from your own home filesystem SDDM can't reach it, picking a file in /usr/shr and it happily accept the change. 

The best way for me have always been renaming the image you want to use and moving it manually to the SDDM theme you select and renaming it background.png (thereby removing the standard background.png)

Comment 2 Jens Reuterberg 2016-07-09 04:11:05 UTC

For me this is using Arch based distro so it is distro independent

Comment 3 Gandalf Lechner 2016-08-01 16:14:17 UTC

same problem using kde neon

Comment 4 David Edmundson 2016-09-27 10:20:32 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 344867 ***