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perenna

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Registered: 2015-06-11

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SDDM greeter: Behold Samaritan, ruler of Hollywood Hackers

Hi there!

I just built the coolest greeter for sddm. I always liked the minimalistic, yet eerily creepy user interface of Samaritan, the antagonistic AI from the TV show 'Person of Interest'. So I set out to replicate it for my login screen and I like the result very much:

All messaging and user input happens in the same spot, right above the black line, and the notifications are especially artificial-intelligency - there is no 'please' or 'sorry', just cold, hard calculation ;-)

I haven't testet it yet on multi-head setups, but it works quite well on my laptop with plasma 5. If you want to try it, here's the theme repo: SamaritanUI. Just create a new theme folder in /usr/share/sddm/themes and copy the contents from contents/loginmanager/ into it. I will probably create an AUR repo some time in the future, but want to do some more testing before that.

Cheers