As Michael Coupet points out, the bug here is that the default background is drawn at all. It's only because another size_allocate signal is received for the background that the user-configured gsettings background is drawn. Here's a clip from the attached greeter log which shows a span of 0.25 seconds between the MainWindow being shown and the correct, user-specified background being drawn (note the "Regenerating backgrounds" message): [+1.03s] DEBUG: unity-greeter.vala:350: Showing main window [+1.03s] DEBUG: New style for time label [+1.03s] DEBUG: Evaluating bitmask for '%l:%M %p' [+1.03s] DEBUG: Checking against 2 possible times [+1.03s] DEBUG: Guessing max time width: 62 [+1.04s] DEBUG: background.vala:315: Regenerating backgrounds [+1.04s] DEBUG: background.vala:67: Making background /usr/share/backgrounds/Winter_Morning_by_Shannon_Lucas.jpg at 1280x1024,1680x1050 [+1.04s] DEBUG: New style for time label [+1.04s] DEBUG: Evaluating bitmask for '%l:%M %p' [+1.04s] DEBUG: Checking against 2 possible times [+1.04s] DEBUG: Guessing max time width: 62 [+1.05s] DEBUG: unity-greeter.vala:891: Starting main loop [+1.05s] DEBUG: Read 8 bytes from daemon [+1.05s] DEBUG: Read 26 bytes from daemon [+1.05s] DEBUG: Prompt user with 1 message(s) [+1.08s] DEBUG: unity-greeter.vala:310: starting system-ready sound .....
[+1.29s] DEBUG: background.vala:116: Render of background /usr/share/backgrounds/Winter_Morning_by_Shannon_Lucas.jpg complete ** Attachment added: "/var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/970024/+attachment/3057158/+files/x-0-greeter.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/970024 Title: lightDM has purple backgroundcolor before the background image is loaded To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/970024/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
