I sincerely thank you for your suggestion, replacing the file with another will of course change the background for the login. However, it will not change the login window... or any layered effects. I suppose I could merge the layers of the individual files together with gimp. After all, functionality over form. I do appreciate the suggestion. Also Ive been toying with this particular bit. Ive run into some trouble with the gconf tool trying to do this via term, now the next part is copy and pasted from the gnome library. I was wondering where it would be false, of course that should be true, but should you define a tar.gz/bz2 or just a splah with this? Also I am ashamed to say I am ignorant of the schema configuration. Should I open the sessions schema and define as I wish? What would be my appropriate action. If you have any RTFM material you could point me too, i would appreciate. its been 4 years since Ive used a linux distro as my primary and I am quite a bit out of practice. The below is merely for a point of reference from this url
http://library.gnome.org/admin/syste...conf-9.html.en
1.7.3. To Set Splash Image Preferences
To set splash image preferences, you modify the value of the preference keys in the /apps/gnome-session/options/ location. For example, if you do not want users ever to see a splash image, set a mandatory value as follows:
gconftool-2 --direct \
--config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory \
--type bool \
--set /apps/gnome-session/options/show_splash_screen false
To set a default value for this preference, run the following command:
gconftool-2 --direct \
--config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
--type bool \
--set /apps/gnome-session/options/show_splash_screen false
You can also set other splash image preferences. For information on the other splash image preferences, see the gnome-session.schemas schema definition file.
All comments are welcome, if you have any other suggestions I would appreciate them as well.