Re: [gdm-list] how to change GDM gui

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

The latest versions of GNOME use the GtkBuilder formated file named
/usr/share/gdm/gdm-greeter-login-window.ui.  You can modify it to change
the appearance of the GUI.

Brian


On 07/26/10 05:56 AM, mike _ wrote:
> On 24 July 2010 17:38, pj<pjezek164 ahoj cz>  wrote:
> >   Hi, there are several PCs i my family with GNU/linux onboard: One with
> > Ubuntu, another with LinuxMint and the last two with Archlinux. While
> > Debian-based GDM packages offer changes of greeter and bacground look by
> > more ways, Archlinux offers only settings via gconf-editor which doesn't
> > offer change geometry, icons and background (I know this has been integrated
> > with general Gnome appearace settings). A standard boxy login frame is not
> > ergonomic, I would have the user list and user icons much smaller as well as
> > the login frame. Are there any solution or am I wait for Gnome 3.0 packages?
> > Thanks a lot!
> > Regards,
> > Petr
>
> I've found that the appearance of the box containing login prompt etc
> can be altered by editing the file gdm-greeter-login-window.glade  (on
> my SuSE machines this is located in /usr/share/gdm/ but other distros
> may have it somewhere else).
> I've successfully edited it using glade-3. My advice is to make small
> changes and then test, it is possible to end up with the window not
> displaying at all. Make sure you keep a copy of your own version of
> gdm-greeter-login-window.glade somewhere other than where gdm uses it
> because an update to gdm may overwrite it. And of course you make a
> back up copy of the original before doing anything.
>
> I found that the size of the box displayed can be altered by setting a
> Width request and Height request on the window-box element.
>
> regards,
>
> mike
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