--=-fp7uTfJRp13WtLZa8OlX Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Someone asked this earlier, and I didn't know the answer, now I think that I do. This is kinda ugly, but I'm pretty sure that this is the color that is set by GDM, not any user setting. So if you don't mind changing the color system wide (black seems like a good color to me) you can change it in: /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf under BackgroundColor --Ted --=-fp7uTfJRp13WtLZa8OlX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+t1bzLE335pRPGp0RAvBkAJ9EyNnv8tsRF/vVDrR4cS+lz3tttgCgvsTy hiLIi41323jvyduzyReQEeU= =ym5O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-fp7uTfJRp13WtLZa8OlX--