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realmazharhussain / gdm-tools

(Deprecated) Command-line tools for GNOME's login manager, GDM
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How to install gdm themes with gdm-tools #5

Closed kshitijaucharmal closed 3 years ago

kshitijaucharmal commented 3 years ago

When I install a new gdm theme from gnome-look.org, and copy it in /usr/share/themes, it doesn't show up in set-gdm-theme list, only the adwaita ones are visible. How to install gdm theme with this tool??

realmazharhussain commented 3 years ago

Actually, GDM themes available on gnome-look.org are not used by GDM anymore. Maybe GDM2 or earlier versions of GDM3 used them but GDM3 (the current version of GDM) doesn't use them anymore. Now, GDM3 uses a gnome-shell theme as its theme.

Download themes from here. Extract theme to /usr/share/themes/ so that the directory structure is /usr/share/themes/${ThemeName}/gnome-shell/ and has a file /usr/share/themes/${ThemeName}/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css.

TL;DR

  1. Download and Install (system-wide) gnome-shell themes instead of GDM themes
  2. If Gnome-Tweaks can set it as Shell theme, set-gdm-theme should also be able to list and set it as GDM theme.