This is interesting, as I have 3 laptops and the pic looks fine on every lcd. Which resolution are you running?
In fact, on my screens I see about the same thing as reported above. -- GDM's default field of brown does not render so well on large LCD monitors https://launchpad.net/bugs/17561 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs