I am using awesome v3.4.15 (Never Gonna Give You Up) and (X)Ubuntu. My display manager is lightdm
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In /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua
I've added this line to change my background to a solid color:
theme.wallpaper_cmd = { "hsetroot -solid '#000000'" }
However, my wallpaper is always set to the default blue wallpaper on a reboot - even after pressing Mod+Ctrl+r, which reloads the config file by restarting awesome.
When I execute hsetroot -solid '#000000'
itself, it works like a charm. Reloading the config doesn't change anything, the background then stays the desired fixed color.
To reload my config, I've got the default command in my rc.lua
:
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "r", awesome.restart)
My greeting login screen, which has the same wallpaper as the default blue desktop, is specified in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf
and contains a line saying where this wallpaper is stored:
[greeter]
background=/lib/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-logo/wallpaper.png
#background=#000000
I changed it from #000000
back to the default [...]/wallpaper.png
, after I've found out that switching from my user to guest/other in the menu of the said greeter resulted in the wallpaper being switched to a black wallpaper - the one specified in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf
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This is weird, because why doesn't this happen, when I select my user name in the menu, but with all other accounts?
If I switch the background
setting back to the default value [...]/wallpaper.png
, then selecting guest/other accounts in the menu results in the wallpaper being shown. It has a minor difference, though, to the default blue wallpaper I am having trouble with getting rid off: It doesn't have the weird 6-dots logo, which can be seen here again. So it is just the raw picture, that is located at /lib/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-logo/wallpaper.png
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- Why doesn't my background change to black, when setting
background=#000000
in/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf
? - Where does this extra 6-dots logo come from?
- Why is my config not reloaded when pressing Mod+Ctrl+r, resulting in the wallpaper_cmd to be executed?
- Other than
awesome.restart
, how can I reload my awesome config to test it?