On 23/03/11 17:25, Rick Thomas wrote: > > No offense intended to anyone involved, but I don't like the stars and > spaceships look of the new Squeeze login screen. Tastes differ, and my > taste differs from that.
I like it, but I'd like to be able to change it... > > In Lenny I had a bunch of options for the login screen and could almost > always find one that fit for the particular machine I was installing. > But now, with gdm3, I seem to be stuck with stars and spaceships. > > I tried installing gdm, which (as expected) wanted to replace gdm3 > (which was fine with me) but it also wanted to delete a *whole* *bunch* > of other stuff as well. I have no idea if I need that other stuff -- or > am I just as well off without it? Kind of depends on what constitutes "stuff".... :-D Either temporarily set up an /etc/apt/apt.conf with recommends=0, or use aptitude with the -R, you'll probably find that kdm will come away cleaner then. Definitely check before you follow my suggestion - I haven't tried removing gdm(3) > > Is there some easy way I can get my login screen options back? > > > Thanks! > > Rick > > No, and yes ;-p I had the same question, but lacked the time to confirm the answer. Looking in System settings I found where the option to change the login screen is but found it disabled - and was informed (from memory) that I was using a theme, so couldn't modify it. So you should just have to either modify the theme, or remove it. Let me know how you go - I'd like to choose the same settings I use for Lenny (simple login, no splash). It *is* on my list of things to do - somewhere below stopping the Quicklaunch applet from flashing :-( Cheers -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
