Is it possible to change the background for the login screen (not the lock screen)? If so, where/how do I do that? Thanks.
Doug
From the Menu - Login Window
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Got it, thanks again.
Hi,
this is not a reply but a question on same topic: don’t know why (i promise i won’t work evermore on my pc after midnight: if you only know what I’ve done las week … 
) but on three users I have in it, just on mine, login screen has become black.
Looking into Menu, Login Window, nothing is changed, is exactly the same as is for other users; same thing if I check via dconf-editor or dconf in terminal. I’m pretty sure that’s matter of some rotten file in my home because if I log in as other user, rename my home dir, delete my user and re-create it, as soon as I’m on login screen I see the correct wallpaper as other users. But logging in as other user and renaming new home dir to something else and old home dir back to username-home, at login I find again a black screen.
Oh, it isn’t so crucial, I prefer a black login screen than copying .ssh, .gnupg, .config/this_and_that, .local/this_and_that in to new user but … any idea?
Thanks,
Sil
Encrypted home folder? That’s the only time I’ve seen that happen when you try to set a wallpaper that is not in a folder that slick-greeter can see.
I presume wallpapers are fairly standard .jpg images? Nothing strange like a tiff file?
No. I prefer to keep directories not encrypted and it seems that it isn’t a wallpaper (at least not known one). Notice that in Menu - Login Window background colour is set to black (as for every other user) and that changing background is useless; it seems as if OS can’t load wallpaper. That’s why I was referring to a rotten config file in my home, but … who knows what it is?
I think that I’ll keep the black login window: better a black login window than wasting a couple of hours copying config files from a backup to a new user home!
Add-on: I’ve right now done a grep -i -r for “Xplo_by” in /home/myUser and found only 4 binaries in .local: .local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite, .local/share/zeitgeist/fts.index/position.glass, .local/share/zeitgeist/fts.index/postlist.glass, and .local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite-wal but obviously editing them wit vi has been useless.
I searched for the setting here, expected it to be in Budgie Desktop Settings or Settings.
It may be easier to integrate “Login Window” to Settings Menu to have all settings in one place.
Integration will have to wait until a future version of budgie desktop that could allow extensions.
For now this will remain a standalone app
If you cannot find Login Window in your menu then check that you have the package lightdm-settings installed
I also experienced the black screen after selecting a jpg that I copied to the /usr/share/backgrounds/ folder. The preview shows correctly in the settings.