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grassmunk / Chicago95

A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.
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Lightdm Chicago95 #166

Open 1337god opened 3 years ago

1337god commented 3 years ago

is there a way to get Lightdm Chicago95 but with Lightdm GTK Greeter?

EMH-Mark-I commented 3 years ago

Hello,

It is possible to enable the Chicago95 GTK theme for the LightDM greeter.

You will need to launch the "LighDM GTK+ Greeter settings" application. From there you can adjust the LightDM theme, Icons, font type, and background. (Some distributions might not include the settings application, so you might have to install it if it's not present on your system.)

If you installed the GTK theme in your user home directory (i.e. ~/.themes) via the install script or manually yourself, then LightDM which runs as a startup service won't be aware of the theme in that location.

You will have to install the theme in "/usr/share/themes/" (Note: This is not an install option for the install script. You'll have to copy over the Chicago95/ directory manually.)

There are instructions included as well for installing the theme system-wide in the INSTALL.md document. See: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/blob/master/INSTALL.md#install_system

Bare in mind that if you have a copy of the theme installed in both your user home ~/.themes and /usr/share/themes/ directories, then this will cause a duplication of the theme represented in the XFCE appearances application. If you ever update the theme in your user home ~/.themes directory, then don't forget about the one also installed in /usr/share/themes/ as well!

Mugen-Houyou commented 2 years ago

On the /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf,

Go to the line [Greeter] Uncomment the theme-name and icon-name theme-name=Chicago95 icon-name=Chicago95

Finally, reboot the system.