Solved Changing background on password screen

[ron.alan]

How does one change the background on the log in/password screen? I am using slim. I'm running Crowz/Devuan. Thanks.

 

[JasKinasis]

See section 2.5.1 on this page of the Arch wiki:

SLiM - ArchWiki

wiki.archlinux.org

According to that, Slim is hardcoded to look for a file called background.jpg, or background.png in the current theme’s directory.

So just copy the new one over the top of the existing one.

cp /path/to/new/background.jpg /usr/share/slim/themes/<theme_name>/background.jpg

Where <theme_name> is the name of the theme you’re currently using.
You’ll need to copy the file as root, so either su to root, or use sudo.

 

[ron.alan]

Thank you. You taught me something new today.