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Hello! i'm using Mageia 5 GNOME. in Debian - Mint - Ubuntu, to change grub - terminal resolution i edit "grub" file (sudo gedit /etc/default/grub) and change lines to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash vga=792" and GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768 , how can i change it in Mageia? there is no 'grub' file i can find.

and how can i change login screen backgroud?

sorry for my english)

You are most likely using grub-legacy on Mageia.
BTW, 'vga=792" is deprecated on grub2 (valid on grub-legacy).

For grub legacy, you can easily add "vga=792" via drakboot in the "append" line for every boot entry: http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/5/en/content/ ... -boot.html
You can also manually change it for all entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst

By login screen background, what do you mean in particular? You mean for grub or where you select your desktop environment and user?
Please provide some information what Mageia media you used for installation and what desktop environment you use.
The contents of /etc/sysconfig/desktop will certainly help.

Thanks to all!
grub is ok for now, after grub2 was installed via Drakconf, i can edit /etc/default/grub.

by login screen background, i mean screen, where i can select my desktop environment and user.

i'm using Mageia 5 GNOME (KDE is slowwww ). and installed Mageia via Classic Installation.
if it possible, i want to use default GNOME 3 gray background as a login screen wallpaper.

So you're probably using GDM. To the best of my knowledge, we don't have any tool to change the login screen for GDM.
You probably want to select a theme from http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=150 which also come with instructions on how to install them.

If you only want to change the background picture, check https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/questi ... ackground/

doktor5000 wrote:If you only want to change the background picture, check https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/questi ... ackground/

i checked this solution, but there is no 'noise-texture.png' in Mageia (by the way i like noise-texture.png, its a default Gnome 3 login screen wallpaper).
i think Mageia use one of images from /usr/share/mga/backgrounds/ as a default login screen wallpaper, i tried to replace default.jpg with custom background, but with no luck.

Then you don't seem to have a full GNOME installation. That file is contained in gnome-shell package:

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[doktor5000@Mageia5]─[15:40:24]─[~] urpmq -l gnome-shell| grep noise
/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/noise-texture.png
/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/noise-texture.png

i found it, it was a small 256x256 image. but Mageia 5 GNOME don't use noise-texture.png as a login screen background. so that solution from fedora forum is not for Mageia 5 GNOME.
Mageia use this background as gdm login screen wallpaper --
while other distros with GNOME 3 use noise-texture.png --

I found solution!!!

to change Mageia 5 GNOME 3 gdm login screen background - wallpaper you must run in terminal —

su
nautilus /usr/share/mga/backgrounds/

then you will see something like this

in /usr/share/mga/backgrounds/ folder there is a symlink with name "default.jpg", that point in my case to /usr/share/mga/backgrounds/Mageia-Default-1600x1200.jpg,
'Mageia-Default-1600x1200.jpg' — is a gnome 3 login screen background, to change it — copy your custom background to /usr/share/mga/backgrounds/,
rename original 'Mageia-Default-1600x1200.jpg' to 'Mageia-Default-1600x1200.jpg.bak', rename your custom image to 'Mageia-Default-1600x1200.jpg'...
relogin and enjoy your custom gdm background!!! sorry for my english)

Thanks to all! Mageia GNOME is the BEST! )

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