Just noticed my chosen desktop background is now used by the greeter, and the transition from greeter to desktop is very smooth. VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] (rev a1) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 351a Kernel driver in use: nouveau
that was fixed about a week ago though it might not automatically take on an older install, see blue - nautilus (1:3.6.3-0ubuntu11) raring; urgency=low * debian/patches/10_sync_background_to_accountsservice.patch: - write the background image to accountsservice when it changes, gnome-settings-daemon was doing that but we stopped using that plugin to avoid duplication so we need to do it here
yes and you can also choose any background image you have. and now i can use ubuntu tweak to set the greeter background image of my choice. never worked for me in 12.10.
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