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A Simple theme variant for the SDDM Login Manager
Assumes that you've installed and configured SDDM correctly (if not read more)
Please make sure you have the following dependencies installed:
qt5-quickcontrols2
,qt5-graphicaleffects
,qt5-svg
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Open terminal, and clone the repository with:
git clone https://github.com/JaKooLit/simple-sddm.git ~/simple-sddm
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Then move it as follows:
sudo mv ~/simple-sddm /usr/share/sddm/themes/
Edit the '/etc/sddm.conf.d/theme.conf.user' (with any text editor with raised privileges), so that it looks like this:
sudo nano /etc/sddm.conf.d/theme.conf.user # use any text editor with raised privileges
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[Theme]
Current=simple-sddm
- By default, it is configured with 24H format. You can change to AM/PM variant by editing the theme.conf
sudo nano /usr/share/sddm/themes/simple-sddm/theme.conf # use any text editor with raised privileges
HourFormat="hh:mm AP
. Make sure to disable the above of this part
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To change the default background, put desired image in the
/usr/share/sddm/themes/simple-sddm/Backgrounds/
folder and add the name of the image followed by its extension (.jpg
or.png
) intheme.conf
file. -
You can also customize it further if you wish in the
/usr/share/sddm/themes/simple-sddm/theme.conf
(blur, form position, etc)