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- How to change kali login screen image.
- Found package kali-desktop-base installed.
- Looked at files installed by kali-desktop-base
- ┌──(user㉿kali)-[~]
- └─$ dpkg-query -L kali-desktop-base
- /.
- /usr
- /usr/share
- /usr/share/desktop-base
- /usr/share/doc
- /usr/share/doc/kali-desktop-base
- /usr/share/doc/kali-desktop-base/changelog.gz
- /usr/share/doc/kali-desktop-base/copyright
- /usr/share/icons
- /usr/share/icons/vendor
- /usr/share/icons/vendor/128x128
- /usr/share/icons/vendor/128x128/emblems
- /usr/share/icons/vendor/256x256
- /usr/share/icons/vendor/256x256/emblems
- /usr/share/icons/vendor/64x64
- /usr/share/icons/vendor/64x64/emblems
- /usr/share/icons/vendor/scalable
- /usr/share/icons/vendor/scalable/emblems
- /usr/share/images
- /usr/share/images/desktop-base
- /usr/share/lintian
- /usr/share/lintian/overrides
- /usr/share/lintian/overrides/kali-desktop-base
- /usr/share/wallpapers
- Identified /usr/share/images/desktop-base/ as a likely directory for the login screen image.
- ┌──(user㉿kali)-[~]
- └─$ eom /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-background
- # Found the image ^
- ┌──(user㉿kali)-[~]
- └─$ ls -l /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-background
- lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Feb 16 2022 /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-background -> /etc/alternatives/desktop-background
- # It is a symb-link^ which points to a 2nd symb-link.
- ┌──(user㉿kali)-[~]
- └─$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/desktop-background
- lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 74 Feb 16 2022 /etc/alternatives/desktop-background -> /usr/share/desktop-base/kali-theme/wallpaper/contents/images/3840x2160.png
- # Preferred login background image is:
- /usr/share/backgrounds/kali/kali-layers-16x9.png
- # backup then switch the symbolic link:
- ┌──(root㉿kali)-[~]
- └─# mv /etc/alternatives/desktop-background /etc/alternatives/desktop-background_2022_02_16
- ┌──(root㉿kali)-[~]
- └─# ln -s /usr/share/backgrounds/kali/kali-layers-16x9.png /etc/alternatives/desktop-background
- ┌──(root㉿kali)-[~]
- └─# ls -l /etc/alternatives/desktop-background
- lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Mar 8 12:42 /etc/alternatives/desktop-background -> /usr/share/backgrounds/kali/kali-layers-16x9.png
- # Verify with screen lock and re-login
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