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Hi,
Silly maybe, but in trying out lightdm(-GTK) to replace gdm, I am unable to change the GTK-theme in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.
I was able to change the background and the font, but the theme, the icon (and maybe cursor) remain the default grey. I have tried using Adwaita, which should be installed together with gnome 3 and I have installed gnome-shell-theme-faience from AUR to try it out. None of them are working.
Maybe this is related:
I do seem to have another problem with the user-theme-extension: it was outdated according to extensions.gnome.org, so I removed it with pacman and I installed it via the gnome website. But gnome-tweak-tool keeps telling me there is an error with the extension and I'm not able to set a user theme with that tool...
Anybody have a clue? The wiki nor the AUR hold much info on this and the web is talking about the unity-greeter mostly...
Last edited by zenlord (2012-06-18 17:18:07)
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The lack of responses seem to indicate two possibilities:
1. I'm the only one having a problem, or
2. This is not a bug - I should theme lightdm-gtk manually.
In either case: the extension-problem is solved now, so that should not interfere (anymore), and upgrading to the latest lightdm(-gtk-greeter) has not solved the problem...
Last edited by zenlord (2012-06-05 08:02:40)
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zenlord,
please post your /etc/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
Thanks.
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Sure, here it is:
[greeter]
background=/usr/share/wallpapers/mirrored_room.jpg
theme-name=Faience
icon-name=Faenza
cursor-name=Faience
font-name=Cantarell 11
xft-antialias=true
xft-dpi=96
xft-hintstyle=slight
xft-rgba=rgb
show-language-selector=falseThe background is correct, but the theme-name not.
THX!
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Please confirm the themes are installed in /usr/share/themes & /usr/share/icons
They need to actually reside in that folder (ie not symlinks) and need to have a gtk3 theme folder inside the gtk theme.
Should that be ok, please post the output in your logs: /var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log and /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
Cheers.
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OK, I officially feel like a dumbass: trying to apply # gnome-shell themes obviously don't woth for a *GTK*-greeter...
Problem SOLVED, although I'm a little dissapointed that the GTK-greeter is very basic when compared with the unity-greeter (the one in Ubuntu 12.04 is very likable)...
I guess lightdm allows me to theme/design my own greeter. If I find the time, I'll look into it.
THX!
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