Custom Login Window

[Kirkx]

I have been playing around with Pretty Greeter login window based on lightdm-webkit-greeter:

https://github.com/jfbrazeau/lightdm-web...ty-greeter

I'm wondering if I have missed something setting it up. Here is what I did:

1) Create a new folder named "pretty" (or any other name) in:

Code:

/usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/

2) Unzip "pretty greeter" files to the above folder.

3) Open file:

Code:

index.theme

and change the session from gnome to xfce4:

Code:

[theme]
name=Pretty Greeter
description=Pretty Greeter Theme
engine=lightdm-webkit-greeter
url=index.html
# session=gnome
session=xfce4

4) Open file:

Code:

/etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit-greeter.conf

and change the theme-name and webkit-theme from Linux Lite to Pretty:

Code:

[greeter]
background=/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png
# theme-name=LinuxLite
# webkit-theme=linuxlite
theme-name=Pretty Greeter
webkit-theme=pretty
font-name=Ubuntu 11
xft-antialias=true
xft-dpi=96
xft-hintstyle=slight
xft-rgba=rgb

5) Reboot

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When testing display managers it might be better to create a keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Backspace that will allow to quit the GUI instead of rebooting (I think it was explained by Misko_2083 on another thread some time ago, I just can't find the link):

Code:

/etc/default/keyboard

Code:

XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

On a related note, here is excellent Misko's tutorial abount installing Mint Display Manager:

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/index...opic=703.0

[Irishluck83]

I will try it tonight but it looks like you did the steps correctly. What does it display when you rebooted? the tty1?

[Kirkx]

No, not TTY1. It displays user icons floating in the air over the mountains. Once you click on a user icon it jumps. I'm not much into graphics effects, booting all my distros without the splash screen and watching the commands scrolling down, but I find this particular greeter theme with animated icons kind of neat and I decided to keep it for now. You can replace the default "mountain" theme file:

Code:

/usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/pretty/img/bg.jpg

with LL theme file from here:

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/membe...d-artwork/

The full album can be downloaded here:

http://imgur.com/a/bhML9