By reviewing the /etc/lightdm/* files once again I noticed that I had a lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.dpkg-new file and that lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf was a symlink pointing to somewhere else *). After renaming the dpkg-new file to lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf the solid blue background was gone. Instead lightdm now showed the greeter background (the "background" as set in the .conf file) for a second or so, then the user's background also for a second or so and then the greeter background again. I then set the user-background to false in the .conf file. Lightdm now only show the greeter background with a flicker after some two seconds.
By pure chance I found bug #1531224 "lightdm-gtk-greeter flickers once little after lightdm starts", which relates the flicker to the intel graphics. And indeed the boxes I see the symptom on nowadays all have intel graphics. However I am pretty sure that I saw the symptom on my previous desktops -- an i7-2600 with a radion video card and an i7-3930 with an nvidia one. Anyway, the workaround of changing the acceleration to UXA instead of SNA as mentioned in that bug resolved the flicker for me too. Without the user-background in the .conf file set to false lightdm shows the user's background and with the user-background in the .conf file set to false the greeter background, both without a hitch. For as far as I am concerned this bug can be closed. :D *) For the record: /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf was a symlink to /etc/alternatives/lightdm-gtk-greeter-config-derivative, which in turn is a symlink to a (non-existing) /etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu/lightdm /lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf file. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of LightDM Gtk+ Greeter Development Team, which is subscribed to lightdm-gtk- greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1659331 Title: user background disappears Status in lightdm-gtk-greeter package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: For some users lightdm displays the user's background for a second or two and then shows a solid blue background. Login etc. is OK. I have seen this behavior for over a year now (so things already started with 14.04) on several boxes. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: lightdm 1.18.3-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-59.80-generic 4.4.35 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-59-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Wed Jan 25 16:10:20 2017 SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+bug/1659331/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lightdm-gtk-greeter-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lightdm-gtk-greeter-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
