Change Login window theme in Ubuntu 9.10/10.04 and higher
Posted Under: General
Since Ubuntu 9.10,there’s no “login window” option in System menu to change login window icons,background.To change login appearance in Ubuntu 9.10 and higher version becomes inconvenient.Fortunately,there are two GUI tools I found that could instead to accomplish this task.
1.GDM2Setup,a GUI tool designed to configure login screen behavior.It can be installed by following commands in Applications->Accessories->Terminal
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gdm2setup/gdm2setup sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python-gdm2setup
launch GDM2Setup from System->Administration->Login Screen(GDM2Setup),change Login screen background in Wallpaper tab,GTK theme and icons theme in Decoration tab,more options in General tab.
2.Ubuntu Tweak,a great tool provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn’t provide.Ubuntu Tweak can be installed by following commands in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak
launch Ubuntu Tweak in Applications->System Tools menu.In its “Login Settings” tab,click “Unlock” and you can easily change login screen logo and background:
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Reader Comments
in the gdm2setup window, there is a tab named ‘theme’…….when is it going to work? we shud be able to directly choose a gdm theme, instead of going for a wallpaper and decoration separately.
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I should qualify that for Ubuntu 11.04.
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In reference to the above comment.
I am using ubuntu 10.10 and tried to install “gdm2setup” setup. But i am getting this error…
Get:5 http://dl.google.com stable/main i386 Packages [1,091B]
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main Sources
404 Not Found
Get:6 http://dl.google.com stable/main i386 Packages [737B]
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
Fetched 4,916B in 2s (1,689B/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/gdm2setup/gdm2setup/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/gdm2setup/gdm2setup/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
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