You're going to want to be careful here. The version of gdm delivered in the current version of Gnome (2.24) is themeable in very flexible ways.
The version of gdm delivered in the soon-to-come-to-OpenSolaris version of Gnome (2.26) is a complete rewrite, and is not themeable in many aspects that the current version supports (although what you're asking is simple and perhaps still possible). The schedule I have shows Gnome 2.26 integrated to Nevada in build 115. We'd love to see the new version extended along the lines of the current one in regard to theming. Any volunteers? :) -Bob Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
