Description of problem: On boot, the new Spherical Cow wallpaper(*) appears briefly, but then the entire screen turns solid gray and the user list appears. See the attached screenshot. * /usr/share/backgrounds/spherical-cow/default/wide/spherical-cow.png Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-3.5.91-1.fc18.x86_64 spherical-cow-backgrounds-single-17.91.0-2.fc18.noarch How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot Fedora 18 2. Spherical Cow wallpaper appears for a few seconds 3. wallpaper is replaced with solid gray background Actual results: solid gray background Expected results: Spherical Cow wallpaper background Additional info:
Created attachment 614347 [details] gdm screenshot
I discovered a stale entry in my gconf db: [root@firefly ~]# gconftool-2 --direct \ --config-source xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \ --get /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/laughlin/default/laughlin.xml Wow, it hasn't changed since Fedora 14? So I updated it: [root@firefly ~]# gconftool-2 --direct \ --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \ --type string \ --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename \ /usr/share/backgrounds/spherical-cow/default/spherical-cow.xml But no luck, it's still solid gray.
This seems to be the new default/upstream behavior as of this version, and is therefore not a bug. See the following Ubuntu thread for details and tweaks: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2055406 Marking as closed. Thank you. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers