GDM Themes in Ubuntu 9.10
November 6th, 2009 by robg
Like Fedora 11, Karmic includes a newer version of GDM that no longer allows theming.
But unlike Fedora, there is no preferences tool to change the background and gtk theme that GDM is going to use. So there appears no easy way of customizing the login screen without editing gconf, but there is a fairly simple way of doing this.
If you want to play with the look of GDM in Karmic, open a terminal and run this:
$ gksudo -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-properties
Changing the gnome appearance properties for user gdm, changes them at login.
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November 15th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Hi,
I’ve been bummed about the changes to the GDM themes in Ubuntu v9.10. While not as nice as what we had before (guess it’s still new), at least we now have some choices. Many thanks for your help. You just made my day! Many thanks.
Jim from PA.
December 7th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Step 1: Navigate to /usr/share/images/xsplash
Step 2: Edit images
Step 3: Profit.