Changing Themes/Login Screen

**xjb2003x** · October 30th, 2009

I have been wondering around the forums searching for a way to do this. I did a fresh install of 9.10 last evening. The new login screen just doesn't do it for me. So, I went to gnome-look.org in hopes of finding a replacement. I found a few to my liking. Before I would open a terminal and type gdmsetup, window would pop up and I would change things from there.

In 9.10, this does not come up. I tried to manually move the theme files to /usr/share/gdm/themes/<mytheme>, that failed to work as well. I tried to install it through the appearance menu to no avail. Is this possible to do with the new version? Any help/direction would be greatly appreciated!

**hambone79** · October 30th, 2009

I am having a similar issue. I have a custom GDM theme that has my company logo that I would like to use in place of the hideous default theme in Karmic.

**dummy910** · October 30th, 2009

Code:

sudo apt-get install startupmanager

then look for an icon-program in System>Administration>Startup Manager or type:

Code:

su-to-root -X -c /usr/sbin/startupmanager

to launch via a terminal.

**xjb2003x** · October 30th, 2009

Thanks for your help. I got the startup manager installed, however, the various themes I've downloaded from gnome-look.org do not seem to work.

Has anyone got this to work successfully?

**Good_Newz** · October 30th, 2009

Read this http://www.ubuntumini.com/2009/09/ha...in-screen.html

**hambone79** · October 31st, 2009

Originally Posted by Good_Newz

Read this http://www.ubuntumini.com/2009/09/ha...in-screen.html

This is the first thing I tried and it doesn't work.

**Good_Newz** · November 4th, 2009

This might help http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=365

**tacantara** · November 4th, 2009

I've been trying to download window themes, etc., using the link provided in the themes GUI. When I click on a window dressing I like, the page refuses to load and eventually times out. Has anyone else found this to be true?

**ranch hand** · November 4th, 2009

The login box itself is tough to change. The background image is not. The GDM gets its image the same place xsplash does /usr/share/images/xsplash. You have gimp. The size and resolution needs to be the same on all of the images as the ones in there.