lightdm greeter image used as openbox wallpaper

PackRat · 2023-12-20 19:53:16

Where is the setting that sets the openbox-session wallpaper to the same image as the lightdm-greeter background?

hhh · 2023-12-21 00:32:36

Use nothing (comment out nitrogen or feh or anything that sets a wallpaper in your openbox or bunsenlabs autostart). The lightdm wall will just carry over. You can set that in lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings or in the /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf file ([greeter]background, or maybe user-background, I can't remember which.) I've always found it easier to put the wall under something like /usr/share/images or /usr/share/backgrounds instead of under my home folder, to avoid a permission issue.

Is that what you mean?

PackRat · 2023-12-21 02:03:42

Yes, that should be it.

I was surprised when I logged into the normal openbox session and had the lightdm image instead of that default gray background.

hhh · 2023-12-21 02:44:21

PackRat wrote:

Yes, that should be it.
I was surprised when I logged into the normal openbox session and had the lightdm image instead of that default gray background.

Right, because the BL Boron (and I assume also Beryllium) pure Openbox ~/.config/openbox/autostart has no wallpaper setting in it, nor any settings at all...

# Openbox autostart
## ====================
## When BunsenLabs is launched from bunsenlabs-session this file is ignored.
## BunsenLabs now uses ~/.config/bunsen/autostart,
## executed via /usr/lib/bunsen/config/bunsen-autostart.
## See 'man bunsenlabs-session' for more details.
##
## When you launch Openbox with openbox-session, this script will be
## executed by openbox, and can be used to launch startup applications.
##
## Note: some programs, such as 'nm-applet' are run via XDG autostart.
## Run
## /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openbox-xdg-autostart --list
## or
## /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/openbox-xdg-autostart --list
## to list any XDG autostarted programs.
##
## More information about this can be found at:
## http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Autostart

If you have no DM and just use startx, you'd get the default grey solid-color background, I'd think.

PackRat · 2023-12-21 02:58:03

hhh wrote:

PackRat wrote:
Yes, that should be it.
I was surprised when I logged into the normal openbox session and had the lightdm image instead of that default gray background.
Right, because the BL Boron (and I assume also Beryllium) pure Openbox ~/.config/openbox/autostart has no wallpaper setting in it, nor any settings at all...
If you have no DM and just use startx, you'd get the default grey solid-color background, I'd think.

That's partially right.

But this line:

test -z $BG || $BG -solid "#303030"

in the /usr/libexec/openbox-autostart file was commented out; that line sets the default gray background. So I think the default openbox background would be black.

I have it figured out now - just doing some reverse engineering and hit an imapsse. Didn't know the lightdm background carried over - so learned something today.

#1 2023-12-20 19:53:16

lightdm greeter image used as openbox wallpaper

#2 2023-12-21 00:32:36

Re: lightdm greeter image used as openbox wallpaper

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Re: lightdm greeter image used as openbox wallpaper

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Re: lightdm greeter image used as openbox wallpaper

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Re: lightdm greeter image used as openbox wallpaper

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