I don’t know why but the phrase eye-candy always makes me think of accidentally getting pixie stick contents blown into my eye. Ouch! Anyway, here’s another eye-candy (wipes tears away) trick for your box.
Say you want to change your login screen. You’re tired of the brown look, or the defaults just aren’t cutting it for you. Well there’s a simple way to do this.
First, let’s find a theme we like. Go to the Gnome Art page and browse around until something catches your eye. When you’ve found something you like, download it to your desktop.
Now you should have something like UberFunkyIamSoCool.tar.gz sitting there. Let’s add it to our choices for login screens and then make it the one we use.
If you’re into GUIs, then go to System-> Administration-> Login Window. If you’ve got a CLI open, type:
sudo gdmsetup
You’ll start on the Local tab, which is where you’ll want to be for this. You’ll also see a selection of login screens that come default with Ubuntu. To add the one you just downloaded, simply click the Add button, and browse to your desktop (/home/username/Desktop). Select it and click the Install button. It should show up in your selections now. It’s alphabetical so you may have to scroll down.
Now select the radio button next the the screen you want. You can also add a custom Welcome Message and select what’s on the menu bar. For your custom welcome message I suggest changing it to “Have you surfed ArsGeek yet?” or depending on your choice of login screens, “God my eyes they burn!”
Click close when you’re done customizing. The next time you log in, you’ll see your new selections.
geek out
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November 10th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
thank very much!!you resolve my quest!
March 9th, 2009 at 3:32 am
Thanks a lot for the webpage man!
December 14th, 2009 at 1:10 am
I typed the command at tty and went in through the GUI and both times I end up with a screen only giving me options to “Show screen to login” or to “Automatically login.”
-neonickb
December 19th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
@Nick Bintorio
Which version of Ubuntu are you on?
@author
Thank you for the tutorial lol at “I don’t know why but the phrase eye-candy always makes me think of accidentally getting pixie stick contents blown into my eye. Ouch!” I think of that always!
December 20th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
i have no “Login Window” menu item. All i have is “Login Screen” which only allows to select between showing the login screen or logging automatically as some user.
January 17th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
This doesn’t work for me. I don’t have all the options displayed above.
June 13th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Im having the same issue as Nick Bintorio I see “login Screen” not “login screen” and there is no option for adding splash screen just selecting automatic login and selecting the desktop manager (gnome)
I am using the latest ubuntu 10.04
June 16th, 2010 at 6:56 am
same^^
I have ‘Login Screen’ not ‘Login Window’
And there are no tabs in there
June 24th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
This is an outdated thread. It doesn’t work for Ubuntu 10.04 or later.
December 15th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
I am using ubuntu 10.10 and gdmsetup has no option in changing the login theme.
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Cheers!
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