{"id":3213,"date":"2014-04-21T14:07:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T14:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2016-07-02T07:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T07:00:53","slug":"ubuntu-14-04-change-login-screen-background-remove-the-white-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/ubuntu-14-04-change-login-screen-background-remove-the-white-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 14.04: Change Login Screen Background & Remove The White Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Want to remove the white dots<\/b> and set your log-in screen background image different to your desktop wallpaper<\/b>? Well, this simple tutorial will show you how.<\/p>\n

Below steps will give lightdm<\/b> user access to the X-Server and open dconf-Editor<\/b> to change the settings of Unity Greeter.<\/p>\n

1.<\/b> Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the command below to install dconf-editor:<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get install dconf-editor<\/pre>\n
2.<\/b> Run command to get the root user privilege:<\/p>\n
sudo -i<\/pre>\n
3.<\/b> Allow user lightdm<\/b> to create a connection to the X server:<\/p>\n
xhost +SI:localuser:lightdm<\/pre>\n
4.<\/b> Switch to user lightdm<\/b> in this terminal window.<\/p>\n
su lightdm -s \/bin\/bash<\/pre>\n
5.<\/b> Now you can start the dconf-editor via this user by running:<\/p>\n
dconf-editor<\/pre>\n
When the tool opens, navigate to com \u2013> canonical \u2013> unity-greeter<\/b>. Then change the background value to your custom image and disable both draw-grid<\/b> and draw-user-backgrounds<\/b><\/p>\n
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After all, restart your computer and enjoy!<\/p>\n
UPDATE:<\/b> To revert the settings, re-do previous steps and click “Set to Default” after highlighting the key values in step 5.<\/p>\n
For those who get blank screen issue, switch to command console (Ctrl+Alt+F1 ~ F6), re-do step 2, 3, 4, and finally reset the changes via:<\/p>\n
dconf reset -f \"\/com\/canonical\/unity-greeter\/\"<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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