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You should be able to change the brown look of login screen, just like
you could in previous Ubuntu releases.

I had a custom GDM theme that was completely overwritten by the new
login screen. I tried to find some tool to get the custom theme back or
at least sanitize the login screen from the brown look, but currently I
can't, not entirely at least.

The login screen is sensible to the GTK theme currently set for the gdm
user, so if you run $gksu -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-
properties, you can change appearance of the controls, and the
background image. But there's a problem: after typing enter to log in,
that brown background is still displayed as a splash screen. I'm not
sure though if removing the static splash screen would be the last hack
needed to effectively get the brown look removed.

Either way, there should be a human-friendly way of doing it. My
suggestion is a simple checkbox displayed in System > Preferences >
Appearance when the user has admin rights, something like "Apply current
theme for the login screen". Another option would be having that
checkbox in System > Administration > Login Screen. When checked, the
brown splash screen should be replaced with the chosen background or
some neutral stuff.

** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Users should be able to change the brown look of login screen in Karmic
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/470026
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