How to change lock screen background Ubuntu Mate 19.04

desconocido · 24 July 2019 11:14

I can't help with 19.04 but I have successfully done it on 16.04 by following the advice at

github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-tweak

Change lock screen background

opened 08:19AM - 17 Sep 15 UTC

closed 07:54PM - 28 Jun 17 UTC

flexiondotorg

enhancement minor

Originally reported by: **Martin Wimpress (Bitbucket: [flexiondotorg](https://bi…tbucket.org/flexiondotorg), GitHub: [flexiondotorg](https://github.com/flexiondotorg))** ---------------------------------------- The lock screen runs with elevated privileges, which is the main reason there is not built in means for users to set the lock screen background image. There is potential for a maliciously crafted image to be set as the background image and used to compromise the computer. * Get the users current background from `gsettings`. * Ask the user for the image they want to use on the lock screen. * Create `/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/zubuntu-mate-lock-background.gschema.override` that includes a section like this: ``` #!ini [org.mate.background] picture-filename='fullpath-to-lockscreen-image.jpg' ``` * Run `glib-compile-schema /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas` * Set the users background to what we read from `gsettings` earlier. ---------------------------------------- - Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/ubuntu-mate/mate-tweak/issue/4

as amended by

Actually, I notice a new comment in the github link:

No longer required, as MATE Desktop 1.18 does this now.