Bug#575008: gdm: Changes background twice when logging in; not seamless
Josh Triplett
josh at joshtriplett.org
Fri Mar 26 21:20:48 UTC 2010
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:11:54PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 12:52 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > With the default gdm settings, after logging in, two separate changes
> > occur to the background. First, the gdm theme disappears, and the gdm
> > background color shows up. Second, the user's background color or
> > background replaces the gdm background color. This seems like one more
> > transition than necessary; gdm should go directly from its theme to the
> > user's background.
>
> This seems to be fixed with gdm3, there's a very smooth transition from
> the gdm theme to the background image now.
Sounds promising; I'll wait for gdm3 then.
Does "smooth transition" mean that gdm goes straight from the GDM theme
background to the user background without first painting GDM's
background color?
Also, does this still work if the user doesn't have a background image,
just a background color?
- Josh Triplett
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