Well how are you trying to copy your pictures to that directory? You need to be root, so therefore, use either sudo, su -c, or log into a new terminal window as root, and use the cp command. This is a very basic command..........

whenever i input command:
i get this output:

IF you click add (+ sign) then you can browse to your photo's.

That's what I get when I try to run that command.

a) log in as root
b) type xhost + (command xhost, argument +)
c) then type the command

i want to add pics from my home folder.....and clicking +....won't permit access to root folder.
access is denied

Thanks, that worked!

the real problem is how to change login box........

Dendron, I don't know if this will help or not, but when I was on Mandrake/Mandriva I used to change my login box by installing a theme from one of the major themes sites. There was one that looked like a handprint scanner that installed quite well...

***Later***

Now it seems they're using these .desktop files to do the installation, which won't work I'm afraid.

please elaborate....it may help....^_^

Seems like the only solution to this is to install an alternate display manager...

http://slim.berlios.de/

It's designed to take on any DE and there are 3rd party themes available for it, albeit not many. But you might be able to do something with it...

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Login themes used to come in tarbell packages that you had to configure, make, etc.

how to i go with this cp command issue....
i've described it in this post...

Try putting out the ENTIRE string, like:

If that doesn't work, try actually creating a fake image.jpg file in that directory and try it again.

Let me know what happens.

output:

I didn't mean for you to copy and paste that exactly, just use it as an example...


Sometimes with me it helps if I put out the full directory string.

I will tell you something else that does not help is those spaces in your file names... while the GUI handles them just fine sometimes it can confuse the terminal on what exactly it is you're asking it to do since spaces are also used to break off commands.

And you are doing this as root and not regular user, right? If not you may want to become root first since you're trying to mess with system files.

Sorry if some of this is redundant, just trying to cover all the bases.

Finally, make sure that you actually HAVE a /usr/share/backgrounds/images directory....