From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 Description of problem: It seems that if I use gdmconfig to set the background it flashes the new color i choose but does not set it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start gdmconfig as root 2.click on the basic option 3.click on the background tab 4.change the background color. 5. save settings and then logout of X 6. the new login screen color will be the default, but you can watch it flash your choosen color (I get a purple flash) Additional info:
I found out this happens if you set the background program to something like xsri which ALSO can set the background color. So then the real question is why can a user set the background with xsri AND the color selection widget? The fix would be that if one was enabled then the other would be disabled. I.E. If someone selects the color radio button then then should not be able to select the background program as well.
Well the background program could draw only part of the screen so ... Anyway, this is all because RedHat's configuration is on crack and sets that ugly UGLY xsri hack on the background, when they could add a nice logo on the login window. I suppose there might be some warning or some such when you have a background proggie set. I'm not sure how to handle this in a nice UI way. So for now I resign myself to just bitching about redhat's default configuration. :)
We're losing the xsri (at least it appears so at this point). If we don't, I don't really know how to fix this either, so.