Wallpaper issue on boot [Solved]

[K_B_Tidwell]

On boot as my system transitions from the splash screen, the original "Honesty" background appears even though I am using the Variety app and have cycled through many different backgrounds since first installation.
The Honesty background then tiles as the desktop scaling changes to my preferred 1.3 ratio, and then Variety takes over and changes the background to whatever I've selected previously.
My goal is to ideally make the first background splash process display the image I've selected, or as a make-do, have it be simply a blank black background or some such to eliminate the janky switching to and fro.

System:
Kernel: 5.16.0-6mx-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.16.0-6mx-amd64
root=UUID=<filter> ro splash
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7
dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.1_x64 Wildflower April 9 2022
base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP 15 Notebook PC
v: 096A100003405F00050660180 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 233F v: 06.06 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.02
date: 06/24/2014
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 38.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 38.4/38.4 Wh (100.0%) volts: 16.9
min: 14.8 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Full
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M187 serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron N2830 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Silvermont
family: 6 model-id: 37 (55) stepping: 8 microcode: 838 cache: L2: 1024 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 8666
Speed: 1572 MHz min/max: 500/2416 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1572 2: 1811
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Not affected
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0f31
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Suyin HP Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:3
chip-ID: 064e:9320 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver:
loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1776x999 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 469x264mm (18.5x10.4")
s-diag: 538mm (21.2")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1776x999 hz: 60 dpi: 131 size: 345x194mm (13.6x7.6")
diag: 396mm (15.6")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (BYT) v: 4.2 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.0
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:0f04 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.0-6mx-amd64 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: rtl8188ee v: kernel modules: wl port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8179 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 1000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 class-ID: 0200
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.2:4 chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1
lmp-v: 4.0 sub-v: 22bb hci-v: 4.0 rev: 22bb
Info: acl-mtu: 310:10 sco-mtu: 64:8 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park
link-mode: slave accept
service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 43.57 GiB (18.3%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Lexar model: 256GB SSD size: 238.47 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 5.0 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 20.72 GiB size: 20.23 GiB (97.62%) used: 16.6 GiB (82.1%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 6.2 MiB (2.5%)
fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 209.5 GiB size: 205.21 GiB (97.95%) used: 26.97 GiB (13.1%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: 2082 note: see --pkg apt: 2076 lib: 1014 flatpak: 6
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/artful.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
3: deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
4: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb https://mirror.genesisadaptive.com/mxlinux/mx/repo/ bullseye non-free main
Info:
Processes: 218 Uptime: 1h 2m wakeups: 6 Memory: 7.67 GiB used: 2.06 GiB (26.8%)
Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1
alt: 10 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: quick-system-info-mx
inxi: 3.3.06
Boot Mode: UEFI

[dolphin_oracle]

go into /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and comment out this line:

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display-setup-script=/usr/local/bin/early-bg

that will disable the wallpaper from displaying between login and xfce starting up.

and you can use "lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings" in the menu to disable the login screen background, which is what you are seeing during launch of the desktop before variety takes over. possibly also you are seeing whatever wallpaper is set in the Xfce Desktop settings as well, not sure how fast variety does its thing.

[K_B_Tidwell]

Thank you for this solution. It fixed my problem.