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Login screen appearance

Asked by William Pabon

I want to change the login screen appearance from the the default. There are quite a few on:
http://art.gnome.org/themes/gdm_greeter?page=1.

I downloaded some of those (.tar.gz file) but I don't know what else to do to install them. I tried using System | Preferences | Appearance and pressing the install button, but when I try to open the file with this procedure I get an error message saying something like, ""gdm_mad-tux-2" does not appear to be a valid theme".
Please, help.
wp

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

All you can really change is the colour of the login box and the wallpaper:
http://maketecheasier.com/change-login-and-boot-screen-in-ubuntu-lucid/2010/05/13

I don't believe the chnaging has been coded in yet as the gnome team are doing other stuff (probably gnome 3). You may find luck with this:
http://n00bsonubuntu.com/software/gdm00

But its a lot of low level editting. Depends how dirty you wanna get your hands. I haven't used it though. I used the first link to simply change the wallpaper.

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#2

Thanks for the info. I guess I'm not ready to do this kind of editing myself, yet.

wp

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#3

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.