How change login appearance?

[jacqueshappy]

Hi I want to change the appearance of my login screen and a little research has shown me that I need something called gdm?
How do I get this on ubuntu 10.10? I can't find it in software centre

[stinkeye]

Gdm is the login manager installed by default and is not as customizable as what was used before.

You can change your login background, theme, etc by entering in the terminal

sudo cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow
Log out then select the style you want at the login from the Appearance window that pops up.
This will only affect the login appearance.


Then log in and execute

sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop
to remove gnome-appearance-properties from the login window.

[jacqueshappy]

Many thanks!