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realmazharhussain / gdm-tools

(Deprecated) Command-line tools for GNOME's login manager, GDM
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Any way to switch icons? #9

Closed sheeepdev closed 2 years ago

sheeepdev commented 2 years ago

I want to use different icons in GDM (for the battery, volume, and other icons) but I can't find a way to do it with your tool, is there a way to do this or can you add this functionality to your tool?

realmazharhussain commented 2 years ago

If you want to change GDM icon theme to be the same as you Gnome icon theme, just run the command gnomeconf2gdm. It will apply a lot of Gnome settings to GDM including icon/cursor theme.

If you want to change GDM icon theme to be something different than your Gnome icon theme, first make sure the file /etc/dconf/profile/gdm exists and has following as its content

user-db:user
system-db:gdm
file-db:/usr/share/gdm/greeter-dconf-defaults

if that file doesn't exist, create it and then create a file /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/99-z-icon-theme with the following contents

[org/gnome/desktop/interface]
cursor-theme='xcursor-breeze-snow'
icon-theme='Adwaita'

and obviously, replace xcursor-breeze-snow with name of the theme you want to set as cursor theme and Adwaita with name of the theme you want to set as icon theme

In the end, run sudo dconf update

sheeepdev commented 2 years ago

Thanks, I need to check the documentation before saying anything, sorry