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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Display Manager question
From:       Ed Greshko <ed.greshko () greshko ! com>
Date:       2020-04-07 7:05:48
Message-ID: 3cc1829d-1be2-2b6a-06df-52053402d447 () greshko ! com
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On 2020-04-07 14:04, David wrote:
> Last week, I replaced the file "default.png" in my background directory,
> and was delightfully enjoying a new custom backsplash, instead of the new fancy
> one that Fedora has ( light color blue with some rectangular glass cluster ).

What file, full path name, did you alter?

>
> In my recent update yesterday, something replaced my custom backsplash
> with the old default.png.
>
> Why would an update do that ?   

Because some files actually belong to packages and aren't guaranteed to be
replaced on updates.

>
>
> This is the kind of stuff you can expect from living in Rawhide, so
> I am NOT complaining.       And I am using Xfce, so the DM
> is LightDM, specifically,
>
>       lightdm-1.30.0-8.fc32 ( Rawhide's current version, if using Xfce )
>

What you should, probably (since I'm not a lightdm user, do is to modify

/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf  and change the line

background=/usr/share/backgrounds/default.png

to point to the image file you wish to use.
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