Change lightdm background in Ubuntu

Published by in How To's on December 30th, 2011

This is a little bit the dirty way but makes you love the terminal, so open a terminal and type the command below;

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf

we only need to edit the “background=/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png”, I would prefer to put a comment before the background= so it would look like this;

#background=/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png

Now copy the line and paste it under and replace the path after the “=” sign,

background=/home/jhano/Pictures/background/unity_background.jpg

Save and exit, then log out of your session to see your custom lightdm background.

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