On 5/28/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use the MythCenter theme created by Jeroen Brosens. It really is a > beauty and you can get it at http://www.fotoniq.nl/projects/mythtv/. > At the risk of starting a flame war I think it's the nicest one I've > seen - even better than the one provided by LxMSuite which I don't > actually think is all that nice considering the noise made about it. > Having said that, good on 'em for doing it. > > Anyway, for those of you that enjoy this theme and use GDM autologin, > I've created a GDM theme which mimics the MythCenter theme so when > it's going through it's 5 second minimum auto-login it wil have a > consistent look with MythTV. It's only a small contribution, but as > I've only taken and not given so far I thought I should at least > contribute something. > > The tar file is available at > http://www.oaklands.aust.com/tv/MythtvCenter.tgz. These instructions > apply to Fedora Core. Directory names may be different on other > distros but the idea's the same. > > 1) Download it to /usr/share/gdm/themes/ and unzip and untar it: > # tar -zxvf ./MythtvCenter.tgz > This will create the theme files in a subdir called MythtvCenter. > > 2) Then edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf. You need to change the line that > sets GraphicalTheme to look like this: > GraphicalTheme=MythtvCenter > > 3) Restart X-Windows. On my machine I do that by changing the runlevel > to level 3 and then back to 5: > # telinit 3 > # telinit 5 > > When X restarts the GDM autologin window should be in the new MythCenter > theme. > > Next step is to one day create a bootsplash based on this theme. > > Regards, > Phill > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > Thanks for your work. I agree that MythCenter is the best theme I've seen so far, and use it on my MythTV boxes. I'll have to install your GDM theme when I get home on Monday and see what it's like.
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