Thanks curt, that works for me. So the commentary in the comments in the source file supplied by the gdm3 package don't work, along with the instructions in the wiki page pointing to them, should I log a bug?
On Sun., 7 Apr. 2019, 18:35 Curt, <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2019-04-07, Andrew Clark <ajfcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > What am I missing? > > > > It appears the wiki's wrong and has been wrong for quite a while now (if > not from the very start). > > Maybe the following method might work (it seems like an incredible > rigamarole for such a trivial user customization, but there you go). > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Log-in_screen_background_image > >