[Solved] Login cannot see wallpaper in home dir

[ThomasAn]

Ok, I've given this image file all the permissions known to man and the login screen cannot see it.

Any ideas, what I might be missing here ?

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ls -l ~/Stargate2home.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 thomasan thomasan 340470 Mar  8 12:50 /home/thomasan/Stargate2home.jpg

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sudo grep background /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log

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[+0.64s] DEBUG: background.vala:157: Error loading background: Failed to open file “/home/thomasan/Stargate2home.jpg”: Permission denied
[+0.65s] DEBUG: background.vala:119: Render of background /home/thomasan/Stargate2home.jpg complete
[+0.65s] DEBUG: background.vala:136: images[0] was null for /home/thomasan/Stargate2home.jpg
[+0.65s] DEBUG: background.vala:119: Render of background /home/thomasan/Stargate2home.jpg complete
[+0.65s] DEBUG: background.vala:136: images[0] was null for /home/thomasan/Stargate2home.jpg

[vimes666]

Check the permissions of your /home and /home/user directories:

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ls -dl /home ~

Edit: I think they should be 755 both, at least thats what they are at my end.

[ThomasAn]

Good call. Thank you.

Yes, the permissions of the home directory were restrictive and lightdm could not enter, regardless of the file itself having permissions. I went up to 755 for the home dir and it works now. (I am assuming putting lightdm in the user group would be less secure somehow in the long run)