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A Material design LightDM Webkit2 greeter theme

A Material design LightDM Webkit2 greeter theme

This is a theme for LightDM Webkit2 (lightdm-webkit2-greeter [Arch Linux users: the package is in AUR]).

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Features

I created this for use on Arch Linux, so it only has the basic features of:

  • Selecting an available user from a dropdown
  • Entering their password
  • Seeing their profile picture
  • Restarting the computer
  • Shutting the computer down
  • Option to hide the profile picture
  • Option to change the background
  • Option to change clock format (12/24h)
  • Option to select session
  • Option to select language
  • Option to select keyboard layout (eq. pl_PL for Polish keyboard)
  • A clock!

How to install

Instructions will differ for every platform, but I can tell you how to install it on Arch Linux:

  1. Install and enable lightdm and lightdm-webkit2-greeter
  2. In the terminal, cd to /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/
  3. Clone this repository
    • Type git clone https://github.com/artur9010/lightdm-webkit-material.git
    • or, if you want to use devdevelopment version, use git clone -b dev https://github.com/artur9010/lightdm-webkit-material.git
  4. Enable the theme in your /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf
    • Search for greeter section
    • Set webkit-theme to lightdm-webkit-material

Updating

  1. In the terminal, cd to /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/lightdm-webkit-material/
  2. Pull changes from repository, git pull

Setting your own user picture

There are a couple of methods you can use to set your user picture in LightDM:

  • Put a jpg of your face in your home directory as a file called .face

or

  • Add Icon=/path/to/your/face.png to the bottom of /var/lib/AccountsService/users/<youraccountname>

License

This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the WTFPL (Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License), Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See http://www.wtfpl.net/ for more details..
Default avatar: http://www.designshock.com/flat_character/


Updated : 2015-11-30
Created : 2015-11-18