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A flat theme with transparent elements (actively maintained fork)
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GDM theme installation #152

Closed Frago9876543210 closed 2 years ago

Frago9876543210 commented 3 years ago

Are there any guides for setting this theme as GDM (lock/unlock screen)? I found only PRs in this repo materia theme has that: https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme/blob/master/INSTALL_GDM_THEME.md

jnsh commented 3 years ago

I'd imagine the instructions from materia would work using the *.gresource.xml files from Arc sources.

However Arc also has gnome_shell_gresource build option (disabled by default), that can be used to auto-generate the shell theme .gresource files during build, and they can be simply copied over gnome-shell's original gnome-shell-theme.gresource file. I know some distributions also enable this in their built packages.

I'm hesitant to adding instructions for this, since there's a chance to render your system unbootable (or rather break GDM and gnome-shell), so make sure you know what you're doing, and how to revert the changes :)

Frago9876543210 commented 2 years ago

Any updates on this?

jnsh commented 2 years ago

Sorry, what kind of update did you hope for? I left the issue open in case there had been further questions, but closed this since there had been none...

I'm not providing more detailed instructions than the above post, since I don't want to have to provide support for people who may have broken their system, or simply can't get this to work. There's build option to make the GDM theme change as easy as possible, but anything beyond that you do at your own risk.

If you can't figure this out based on the instructions from Materia, and my earlier reply, then frankly, it's probably better that you just leave the GDM theme unchanged.

If you had some specific question, I could try to clarify.