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[James Lewis <1309456@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I stand corrected, although the behavior, in terms of which settings are
used has changed as a result of the new lock screen, the functionality
is still available.

Please close this bug as Invalid.

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Lock screen backdrop behaviour

Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

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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