Change Xsplash Login Screen Background Image - Manually

Here is another way ( manually ) change your login screen / x-splash background image besides using Xsplash Background Settings tools.

How to manually change login screen background / xsplash image ?
Prepare background image

• Resize the new image that you're going to use as login screen background to fit your screen resolution using any image manipulation program ( GIMP / gThumb Image Viewer )
• Convert or Save image in .jpg format

Resize image using gThumb Image Viewer

Open Xsplash image folder as root

• Press Alt-F2 to open Run Application dialog & type / paste this line:

gksudo nautilus /usr/share/images/xsplash

• Backup original login image by renaming the file.  [ eg. bg_backup.jpg ]
• Copy & paste the new image into xsplash folder opened earlier using line above.
• Rename the new image with the same name as original image. [ eg. bg.jpg ] [see image below ]

Copy & Paste new image into xsplash folder

Backup old image & rename new image

Done

• Logout session to see changes.

Watch video for better understanding: