Public bug reported:
You should be able to change the brown look of login screen, just like
you could in previous Ubuntu releases.
I had a custom GDM theme that was completely overwritten by the new
login screen. I tried to find some tool to get the custom theme back or
at least sanitize the login screen from the brown look, but currently I
can't, not entirely at least.
The login screen is sensible to the GTK theme currently set for the gdm
user, so if you run $gksu -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-
properties, you can change appearance of the controls, and the
background image. But there's a problem: after typing enter to log in,
that brown background is still displayed as a splash screen. I'm not
sure though if removing the static splash screen would be the last hack
needed to effectively get the brown look removed.
Either way, there should be a human-friendly way of doing it. My
suggestion is a simple checkbox displayed in System > Preferences >
Appearance when the user has admin rights, something like "Apply current
theme for the login screen". Another option would be having that
checkbox in System > Administration > Login Screen. When checked, the
brown splash screen should be replaced with the chosen background or
some neutral stuff.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
You should be able to change the brown look of login screen, just like
you could in previous Ubuntu releases.
- I had custom a GDM theme that was completely overwritten by the new
+ I had a custom GDM theme that was completely overwritten by the new
login screen. I tried to find some tool to get the custom theme back or
at least sanitize the login screen from the brown look, but currently I
can't, not entirely at least.
The login screen is sensible to the GTK theme currently set for the gdm
user, so if you run $gksu -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-
properties, you can change appearance of the controls, and the
background image. But there's a problem: after typing enter to log in,
that brown background is still displayed as a splash screen. I'm not
sure though if removing the static splash screen would be the last hack
I needed to effectively get the brown look removed.
Either way, there should be a human-friendly way to do it. My suggestion
is a simple checkbox displayed in System > Preferences > Appearance when
the user has admin rights, something like "Apply current theme for the
login screen". Another option would be having that checkbox in System >
Administration > Login Screen. When checked, the brown splash screen
should be replaced with the chosen background or some neutral stuff.
** Description changed:
You should be able to change the brown look of login screen, just like
you could in previous Ubuntu releases.
I had a custom GDM theme that was completely overwritten by the new
login screen. I tried to find some tool to get the custom theme back or
at least sanitize the login screen from the brown look, but currently I
can't, not entirely at least.
The login screen is sensible to the GTK theme currently set for the gdm
user, so if you run $gksu -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-
properties, you can change appearance of the controls, and the
background image. But there's a problem: after typing enter to log in,
that brown background is still displayed as a splash screen. I'm not
sure though if removing the static splash screen would be the last hack
- I needed to effectively get the brown look removed.
+ needed to effectively get the brown look removed.
Either way, there should be a human-friendly way to do it. My suggestion
is a simple checkbox displayed in System > Preferences > Appearance when
the user has admin rights, something like "Apply current theme for the
login screen". Another option would be having that checkbox in System >
Administration > Login Screen. When checked, the brown splash screen
should be replaced with the chosen background or some neutral stuff.
** Description changed:
You should be able to change the brown look of login screen, just like
you could in previous Ubuntu releases.
I had a custom GDM theme that was completely overwritten by the new
login screen. I tried to find some tool to get the custom theme back or
at least sanitize the login screen from the brown look, but currently I
can't, not entirely at least.
The login screen is sensible to the GTK theme currently set for the gdm
user, so if you run $gksu -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-
properties, you can change appearance of the controls, and the
background image. But there's a problem: after typing enter to log in,
that brown background is still displayed as a splash screen. I'm not
sure though if removing the static splash screen would be the last hack
needed to effectively get the brown look removed.
- Either way, there should be a human-friendly way to do it. My suggestion
- is a simple checkbox displayed in System > Preferences > Appearance when
- the user has admin rights, something like "Apply current theme for the
- login screen". Another option would be having that checkbox in System >
- Administration > Login Screen. When checked, the brown splash screen
- should be replaced with the chosen background or some neutral stuff.
+ Either way, there should be a human-friendly way of doing it. My
+ suggestion is a simple checkbox displayed in System > Preferences >
+ Appearance when the user has admin rights, something like "Apply current
+ theme for the login screen". Another option would be having that
+ checkbox in System > Administration > Login Screen. When checked, the
+ brown splash screen should be replaced with the chosen background or
+ some neutral stuff.
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Users should be able to change the brown look of login screen in Karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/470026
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