A flexible, configurable, material SDDM theme. Most values are configurable via the theme.conf file.
- Select user via user picker
- Select user via typing in username (optional)
- Display organization logo instead of user icon (optional)
- Select background image (configuration option)
- Customizable color scheme (configuration option)
- Set default session (configuration option)
- User selects their preferred session via menu
- Select user's session via request to your API (optional, see below)
- Display a configurable usage message to the user (optional)
- Install sddm
git clone https://github.com/m-wynn/sddm_wynn-theme.git /usr/share/sddm/themes/sddm_wynn-themechmod -R 755 /usr/share/sddm/themes/sddm_wynn-theme- Install qml dependencies (qt5-graphicaleffects and qt5-quickcontrols2)
- Put "Current=sddm_wynn-theme" in the [Theme] section of /etc/sddm.conf
You can create a theme.conf.user file in the theme folder, which will override
the defaults.
default_background: Path to background imagedefault_session: Session name to default to. This is thesessionnamein/usr/share/xsessions/sessionname.desktop(i.e.cinnamonorcinnamon2d, NOTCinnamon (Software Rendering))font: The name of font family to use in labels and fieldsaccent1: The color of the top baraccent1_text: The color of the top bar text and buttonsaccent2: The color of other items, like the "LOG IN" buttonaccent2_hover: The color that will be applied on hover to accent2 itemsam_pm_clock: Whether to use a 12-hour AM/PM clock or a 24-hour clocklogo(optional): Path to the image that will be placed in the spot usually filled by a face iconprimary_screen_only: Whether or not to display the panel on both screens, or just the primary screen.user_name:fillto have the user type in their own username, orselectif you would like to provide a menu of users to choose fromsession_api(optional): A url which will return the user's preferred desktop environment (yes, this was made with a very specific use-case in mind, see more below)aup(optional): A string that will contain an Acceptable Use Policy for your users. Escape characters such as '\n' will render p 69EB roperly (i.e. as actual newlines). Alternatively, quote the whole thing and put in real newlines.
The session API value is useful if, for example, you are running a linux lab of many users, and users can choose a desktop environment to be associated with their account. As an example, this could be done via LDAP and an small web API.
The greeter theme will read your session_api value from the configuration
file, replace %s with the username, perform an HTTP GET request, and use the
body of the result as the session name. Again, the session name should be the
sessionname in /usr/share/xsessions/sessionname.desktop (i.e. cinnamon or
cinnamon2d, NOT Cinnamon (Software Rendering)). If the API returns N,
then it will reset to the default_session configuration value.
For example, if your session_api is http://ldap-api.mylab.com/%s/session/0
and a user types in their name m_wynn into the username box, as soon as they
focus away from the username box, the theme will GET
http://ldap-api.mylab.com/m_wynn/session/0. If the result is N, the
default_session will be used. Otherwise, the body of the response (i.e.
"cinnamon") is used as the session name.