 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today I'm going to be talking you through the process of changing the wallpaper for light DM now If you don't know what light DM is it's a basically the screen you get to when you want to log into your system now Not everyone uses light DM. So if you're using a GNOME based system, you're probably using GDM And if you're using just a KDE system, you're probably using SDDM So the process is going to be different for you. This is specifically for light DM I'm pretty sure light DM is the most popular one Could be wrong. It just happens to be the one that I'm using. So it's the one that I'm making a tutorial for It's very easy. So this video shouldn't be taking very long I will just say I will not be able to show you that this works because Once I actually go through it and log out the recording will stop So I will probably take like a picture of it and then just put it in the end or whatever or wherever I'm done and show you that it's Proof of concept Anyways, let's just go ahead and I'll show you how to do this. So if I go over to the Desktop here and open up the terminal We'll zoom in here and what you'll want to do is CD into slash Etsy and then light DM Okay, and then if we do an LS here, we'll see there's some files now You won't have this file here because that's the wallpaper that I'm actually using so What you want to do is do sudo and then you either use them or nano of them and then you'll want to do this one here So light DM dash GTK Dash greeter comm and we'll enter that and then you'll enter your password And then you'll get this here now the background is the what you want to use as your background now The one I'm going to set is it looks like this. So I'm actually going to need the File name for that which is this here. So the easiest way to get that is to copy the Go into the properties and just control see this okay, and then what I'm going to want to do what you're gonna Want to do is from after you found the Wallpaper that you want to use you don't want to copy that into that light DM folder because light DM can't view for Any files or anything that's located in a user's home directory it just doesn't have permissions to do so so what we're gonna Do is just do CP In this case, I'm do pictures dash walls slash and then that file the file name that I had and then I'm going you to do it into see Etsy slash light DM I Believe this is gonna have to have pseudo That's because that what I do CD instead of CP like a because I'm a moron and I can't type There we go. All right. Anyways now if we close this we close this and go back to Five here we can act will actually be able to see if we do Excuse me if we'll do another LS. We'll see that that Picture is now in our Etsy folder so if I go back in Then we're back in here and Do slash light DM and then we're gonna I'm just gonna Delete to the end of the line here and then we're gonna want to Have that file name there and that's so you that's where the location of the wallpaper is you just copy it into the Etsy folder and then escape insert mode save this so colon WQ and then I Will magically through the med to through the Glories of video editing put it a proof of concept here that it actually worked and that's literally it so This is maybe the shortest video ever But if you use light DM and you don't want to use the crappy Manjaro or Arch Linux or whatever wallpaper that comes with it out of the box This is how you change it and you can literally change it to anything. I Would use one that's in the correct proportion so in case in my case I have a 1920 by 1080p a screen I just use one that's in that you know at least that aspect ratio because then I believe it stretches it out I'm not sure but if you just use one that's exactly the dimensions of your screen You won't have to worry about weird stretching or black bars or whatever it might do Because I'm not actually sure what we'll do if you'd use one that's the wrong size I think you'd probably put black bars either that or I might stretch it out weirdly Anyways, if you like this video give it a thumbs up if you didn't give it a thumbs down Make sure you subscribe and hit the notification icons. I do Linux content Linux content seven days a week. You can also support us on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast Thank you for watching. I'll see you next time