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[James Lewis <1309456@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Since the final release of 14.04, a change was made to Unity to remove
the option to use the old LightDM locker, which removes the ability to
have a different backdrop while locked!  This is a problem for a
corporate deployment!

In my office I cannot afford to have some outlandish backdrop displayed
on it's own while it's owner is not there, so I was using the LightDM's
login screen and lock to display the corporate background... but now, I
cannot... so currently I have to physically switch off my screens when I
leave my desk.

In all the devel versions until the final release version in 14.04, you
could select the locker and revert to LightDM from ccsm... therefore
allowing the option to have an alternate more corporate backdrop for
login screen and lock screen... I think this is quite important in a
corporate environment.

The background is set in dconf, as org.gnome.desktop.background.picture-
uri.... and that's great, but there is also
org.gnome.desktop.screensaver.picture-uri whcih isn't honoured...
perhaps the new lockscreen could honour this value if it points to
something which exists... the option could be exposed from the settings
for the lockscreen later if desired.

I'm not sure why the option to use the old locker was removed only at
the last second.

** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

- Since the final release a change was made to Unity to remove the option
- to use the old LightDM locker, which removes the ability to have a
- different backdrop while locked!  This is a problem for a corporate
- deployment!
+ Since the final release of 14.04, a change was made to Unity to remove
+ the option to use the old LightDM locker, which removes the ability to
+ have a different backdrop while locked!  This is a problem for a
+ corporate deployment!
  
  In my office I cannot afford to have some outlandish backdrop displayed
  on it's own while it's owner is not there, so I was using the LightDM's
  login screen and lock to display the corporate background... but now, I
  cannot... so currently I have to physically switch off my screens when I
  leave my desk.
  
  In all the devel versions until the final release version in 14.04, you
  could select the locker and revert to LightDM from ccsm... therefore
  allowing the option to have an alternate more corporate backdrop for
  login screen and lock screen... I think this is quite important in a
  corporate environment.
  
  The background is set in dconf, as org.gnome.desktop.background.picture-
  uri.... and that's great, but there is also
  org.gnome.desktop.screensaver.picture-uri whcih isn't honoured...
  perhaps the new lockscreen could honour this value if it points to
  something which exists... the option could be exposed from the settings
  for the lockscreen later if desired.
  
  I'm not sure why the option to use the old locker was removed only at
  the last second.

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Title:
  Lock screen backdrop behaviour

Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Since the final release of 14.04, a change was made to Unity to remove
  the option to use the old LightDM locker, which removes the ability to
  have a different backdrop while locked!  This is a problem for a
  corporate deployment!

  In my office I cannot afford to have some outlandish backdrop
  displayed on it's own while it's owner is not there, so I was using
  the LightDM's login screen and lock to display the corporate
  background... but now, I cannot... so currently I have to physically
  switch off my screens when I leave my desk.

  In all the devel versions until the final release version in 14.04,
  you could select the locker and revert to LightDM from ccsm...
  therefore allowing the option to have an alternate more corporate
  backdrop for login screen and lock screen... I think this is quite
  important in a corporate environment.

  The background is set in dconf, as org.gnome.desktop.background
  .picture-uri.... and that's great, but there is also
  org.gnome.desktop.screensaver.picture-uri whcih isn't honoured...
  perhaps the new lockscreen could honour this value if it points to
  something which exists... the option could be exposed from the
  settings for the lockscreen later if desired.

  I'm not sure why the option to use the old locker was removed only at
  the last second.

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