Your login screen thread!

[SIO]

Yeah, I understand how it works. This way is not as good as mine (for me) because I need to install additional software =)

I guess there is the way to modify my instructions to get screenshot of other login managers

[JN4OldSchool]

Originally Posted by SIO

Yeah, I understand how it works. This way is not as good as mine (for me) because I need to install additional software =)

I guess there is the way to modify my instructions to get screenshot of other login managers

All 727kb of extra software that you can install through yum?

How long would it take me to type "yum install xnest" compared to you looking for an alternative way? Wanna race? Ready...set...GO!

[RupertPupkin]

An extra benefit of Xnest is it gives you the ability to login to more than one DE/WM at the same time. For instance, you can login to GNOME, then from within GNOME you could open an Xnest login window to login to KDE. No need to logout of one to login to the other - you could be in both (or more) at the same time, which is nice when you just want to test something in another DE/WM.

[SIO]

It's more comfortable to start another X session ;-)

[mastertux]

I like the default Fedora login screen

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[EntityReborn]

bah, Xnest gives me a nonfunctional, patterned screen. No login, cursor actually dissappears when entering the window. I'd like to put in a new login manager, but don't rightly know how

[RupertPupkin]

Originally Posted by EntityReborn

bah, Xnest gives me a nonfunctional, patterned screen. No login, cursor actually dissappears when entering the window.

Are you sure you ran Xnest correctly?

Xnest -query localhost :1

[EntityReborn]

I had copy pasted the previous code snip, but your code snip worked fine.
Mind you, I just have downgraded my GDM to FC8's version, so that may be it as well.

[oshan1991]

hyyyyyyyy how to change the login screen in fedora 10 ??? i tried xnest but it says no pakage xnest found

[EntityReborn]

oshan:
The guy above made a typo, run "yum install Xnest" as root. X is a capital.

[JN4OldSchool]

Xnest is not going to help you change the login screen though.

[PabloTwo]

To install Xnest: yum install xorg-x11-server-Xnest

No, Xnest will not change your log-in screen graphics. Xnest is just an X application that acts just like the real X server, that will allow you to run multiple X-sessions, one nested inside the other. The whole point of Rupert bringing up Xnest was that it would allow you take a screenshot of your 'nested' log-in window from your top-level X session.

[Special Python]

The default Fedora 11 graphics were definitely not to my taste - so here is my new login screen (see attached image).
Ok - Attachments don't seem to work - here are the links to the image - choose your download size:

http://www.sarasa.net/Fedora/FC11/sc...gin_Screen.png (1280x1024)
http://www.sarasa.net/Fedora/FC11/sc...en_800x640.png



It is really just an assembly of available graphics. I am using KDM as the login manager and Gnome as my desktop. The background was downloaded from http://www.wallpaperlinux.com
The kdm login window is a mild hack of the fc10's Solar Mania theme.
The following lists the steps I took to change the login screen. All directories and files must have root ownershiip and files must be chrooted 644
1. Make a new directory in /usr/share/backgrounds e.g. /usr/share/backgrounds/custom/custom1
2. Copy the relevant directory structure from /usr/share/backgrounds/leonidas/lion to /usr/share/backgrounds/custom/custom1
3. Resize your background image with gimp - place in the appropriate directory and in addition make a png file as well as a jpeg.
4. Copy /usr/share/backgrounds/leonidas/leonidas.xml to /usr/share/backgrounds/custom1.xml and edit to change the name of the paths and the image files.
5. Now go to /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes and create a new directory .- custom1.
6. Copy all from /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/leonidas to /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/custom1
7. Copy the loginbox.png and imputbox.png from /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/SolarMania to /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/custom1
8 Rename the files to your taste and edit the paths in KdmGreeterTheme.desktop if you do so.
9. Edit the font color codes in /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/custom1/leonidas.xml (or whatever you have renamed it to) to work with the new theme.
10. Edit the symlink @leonidas.png to the path of your new image - eg: /usr/share/backgrounds/custom/custom1/normal/2048x1536/Ocean_Blue.png
11. Edit /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc and replace the line:
Theme=/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/leonidas
with:
Theme=/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/custom1

Reboot and login with the new screen - or test it with Xephyr (I found this better than Xnest on FC11).

Perhaps some kind person might write a script and gui to automate all this. It is a shame that there is not a login screen configurator in Fedora.