Login Background - How to Change?

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As the title asks.

Manjaro/Budgie 20.0.1 Dell Inspiron 13 7000

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run the following to find out the active display manager because dm controls your login screen, not the de. Then we will proceed accordingly

file /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service
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[drew@drew-dell ~]$ file /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service
/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service: symbolic link to /usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service
[drew@drew-dell ~]$

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I have lightdm installed. However, when I checked it, I get this:

Preformatted text> [drew@drew-dell ~]$ systemctl status lightdm
â—Ź lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-11-10 12:26:20 PST; 26min ago
Docs: man:lightdm(1)
Main PID: 473 (lightdm)
Tasks: 11 (limit: 9217)
Memory: 79.3M
CGroup: /system.slice/lightdm.service
├─473 /usr/bin/lightdm
└─669 /usr/lib/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch

Nov 10 12:26:19 drew-dell systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager…
Nov 10 12:26:20 drew-dell systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Nov 10 12:26:21 drew-dell lightdm[912]: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session opened for user lightd>
Nov 10 12:26:27 drew-dell lightdm[1000]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Nov 10 12:26:27 drew-dell lightdm[1000]: gkr-pam: stashed password to try later in open session
Nov 10 12:26:27 drew-dell lightdm[1000]: pam_systemd_home(lightdm:account): systemd-homed is not availabl>
Nov 10 12:26:27 drew-dell lightdm[1000]: pam_unix(lightdm:session): session opened for user drew(uid=1000>
Nov 10 12:26:27 drew-dell lightdm[1000]: gkr-pam: gnome-keyring-daemon started properly and unlocked keyr>
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What does “gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file” mean, if anything?

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check which greeter you are using

cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | grep "greeter-session"

depending on greeter, you have to change the relevant config file in /etc/lightdm directory. Look for the entry background under [greeter] section and write path to an image file.

[greeter]
background=/path/to/your/image.jpg

Path must be accessible by lightdm, so avoid using user’s home directory. sudo cp to /usr/share/backgrounds instead.
Here are some commonly used greeters, but there are many more…

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