I did a reinstall of 12.10 and the problem went away. Of course, the image that I want to be displayed on the screen must still be placed directly in the user's ~/Pictures folder.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1070303 Title: Lightdm don't show user wallpaper Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ubuntu 12.10, Gnome Classic with compiz When showing login screen, it shows ubuntu default wallpaper, and not user wallpaper. My wallpaper is not in ubuntu's list, but from a different folder. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1070303/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
