@troubleMoney meanwhile wallpaper didn't change

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

@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?

@troubleMoney uhh it's one of the wallpapers that comes with xubuntu

and i don't know what a greeter is

@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 yes, this is indeed needlessly complicated

@troubleMoney i didn't change anything other than install fprintd, which added a thing in lightdm that asks me for my fingerprint on top of regular password

i don't know what greeter lightdm has?

@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

@troubleMoney hhhh blrg

does it help to know that changing to "guest" and then back to my user makes the wallpaper fade in

like, the greeter already knows it

it's just not ..... putting it on by default anymore

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