Hi Mark. On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:32 -0700, Mark Fenwick wrote: > Thanks for the pointer to gdmsetup. This does what I want, although I > would prefer to have the OpenSolaris dialog box, rather than the Gnome > one, just without the blue graphic background. Can this be done ?
Disclaimer: I know nothing about gdm themes, but I poked around just now on one of my systems. The themes apparently live in /usr/share/gdm/themes. Glancing at the contents of the Indiana directory, it would seem that: 1) The OpenSolaris dialog box ain't a dialog box, but rather an image. 2) The image in question includes the background you're trying to rid yourself of. This inclusion strikes me as silly, given that a perfectly good background is part of the theme (both the file, as well as its use in Indiana.xml). But what do I know? :-) Anyhoo.... As an experiment, I cropped box-opensolaris.jpg to just include the box and edited Indiana.xml to not use opensolaris.jpg as the background image. I now have a login screen that looks like what I believe you describe wanting. If you're into the aesthetics of the login screen, and want variety, take a look at http://art.gnome.org/themes/gdm_greeter and/or http://gnome-look.org (under GDM themes). If you find any you like, you can install them via gdmsetup. > Also I noticed that with the gnome dialog box, the screen never > blanks, either that or the idle timeout is really long. I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that one. Perhaps it's a setting somewhere? But if you make or install a custom theme, I suppose that will be a non-issue. Hope this helps. Take care. --joanie
