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Marceau

#! Member

Registered: 2012-01-09

Posts: 91

Don't like the new login screen

I've wanted to say this for a while: I don't like the updated login screen with the text box off-center. (SLIM)

I remember it was the sparse login screen with the one basic tone and the text box in the middle that made me fall in love with #!. I was a bit sad to see it tinkered with. It was so clean and no-nonsense. It was like a fresh shower on a hot summer day.

I'm not sure why the change was necessary at all, only that it seems to follow a trend that I've seen in Ubuntu previously.

If there is any question or doubt about it, I'd love for the old-style login screen to be reinstated. Alternatively, I might like to install the old theme myself.

Any opinions?

axel668

#! Member

Registered: 2009-07-17

Posts: 99

Re: Don't like the new login screen

oh yes, me too ...
although I'm not sure if there was an "old" theme with SLIM, or if that was still GDM ?

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lowrider

#! Junkie

From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-10

Posts: 451

Re: Don't like the new login screen

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ed-solved/

this schould do it.

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Larsantos

Member

Registered: 2012-04-17

Posts: 15

Re: Don't like the new login screen

I've wanted to say this for a while: I don't like the updated login screen with the text box off-center. (SLIM)

I remember it was the sparse login screen with the one basic tone and the text box in the middle that made me fall in love with #!. I was a bit sad to see it tinkered with. It was so clean and no-nonsense. It was like a fresh shower on a hot summer day.

I'm not sure why the change was necessary at all, only that it seems to follow a trend that I've seen in Ubuntu previously.

If there is any question or doubt about it, I'd love for the old-style login screen to be reinstated. Alternatively, I might like to install the old theme myself.

Any opinions?

Well, you have the right to not like the login screen, and you have the right to change it too.

You may not be aware that #! is a work of corenominal alone, and he has the right to change it at will, he doesn't do it but has that right, after all, it is his work.

Check the link lowrider posted and if your issue is solved, please change the subject to reflect it, also, if you find how to change the login screen to the old GDM, please share with us, linux evolve with the sharing of ideas and solutions.

[Edit] sorry for bumping an old topic, didn't saw the date. [/Edit]

Last edited by Larsantos (2012-10-15 00:52:19)

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dura

Bloated Gimp

From: interzone

Registered: 2012-09-15

Posts: 2,081

Re: Don't like the new login screen

Pretty easy to modify slim theme as you want it.

usr/share/slim/themes

Then open waldorf, if that's what you're using. Copy it- in case you mess up. Then you can modify as much as you want. Also possible to rename and replace the background.png file with pics you want, or just use colours, change fonts, etc.,

I don't think there is much more functionality you can add. I am still unsure as to how to change your default slim theme, and adding other wm's is a bit fiddly too

I prefer the new SLiM theme myself.

Last edited by dura (2012-10-15 10:18:15)

corenominal

root

From: Lincoln, UK

Registered: 2008-11-20

Posts: 4,888

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Re: Don't like the new login screen

I'm not sure why the change was necessary at all, only that it seems to follow a trend that I've seen in Ubuntu previously.

Admittedly, it is not obvious unless you have a dual screen set-up, but the old centred theme would place half of the login box on one display and the other half on the other display. Moving to an off-centre theme was purely a technical/usability change and definitely not due to wanting to follow any Ubuntu trends.

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