Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

The breakout star of the 2017 General Election, Lord Buckethead, has released a Christmas single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebzooSdAbGE

@gcupc@glitch.social we all know squirrels are undefeatable

@chosafine@instance.business either that or just ask for a couple of donations, everyone here knows servers cost money, most of us are happy about chipping in a bit

@squirrel hey, no worries, this instance is more than worth it

@squirrel cool, there we go, that should help a bit

speaking of funding instances, @squirrel, what's the best way for me to chuck you some money to help with the server costs here?

I... Uh... What?

mastodon.host crypto mining in the browser?

@squirrel I have no idea why it's doing that, but setting the wallpaper manually will make it put that wallpaper there

@squirrel from what I can tell xubuntu uses lightdm gtk greeter as default

If you want to set the wallpaper manually on that the setting's in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf

It's the "background" variable in the [greeter] section

Not sure if that'd actually help, but might be worth a try

@squirrel yes, this is indeed needlessly complicated

@squirrel ah, lightdm is the bit that does display managing, the greeter is the bit that pops up and actually asks you for the username and password

wallpapers are handled by the greeter, so if you changed that you might need to set the wallpaper

@squirrel didn't switch the greeter by any chance while doing the fprintd stuff?

Also, are you setting the wallpaper manually or automatically from your user wallpaper?

@squirrel damn, like 50% of the time on linux the problem is permissions

@squirrel permissions problem maybe?

The wallpaper has to be accessible to the lightdm user

@squirrel @revenant For Christmas day have the old javascript snow effects with tiny maples and let them drift downwards on computerfairi.es like snow!

@squirrel probably too much patience to be honest

For some reason I've still got it in my head that if I calmly explain to someone exactly why they are wrong they might finally get a clue despite all evidence to the contrary

@squirrel yeah, that was not great