Your login screen thread!

RupertPupkin · #1 7th April 2009, 10:28 PM

Post a pic of your Fedora login screen here! Here's mine (click to see full image):

By the way, there's a way of doing this without using a virtual machine (hint: man Xnest).

blittle · #2 7th April 2009, 10:38 PM

wait, didn't they kill the ability to customize GDM?

RupertPupkin · #3 7th April 2009, 10:43 PM

Good thing I'm not using GDM!

sideways · #4 7th April 2009, 11:37 PM

here's mine

GUIs are for girlz

(and F8 is still the best

)

sideways · #5 8th April 2009, 01:09 AM

you can customise gdm login screen by enabling a gdm user login and then just go and change backgrounds and fonts etc

Code:

su -
chsh -s /bin/bash gdm
passwd gdm

(gdm's home dir is /var/lib/gdm)

RupertPupkin · #6 8th April 2009, 03:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sideways

GUIs are for girlz

Ah, so you posted this pic to the forums using lynx from the console, eh?

sideways · #7 8th April 2009, 03:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RupertPupkin

Ah, so you posted this pic to the forums using lynx from the console, eh?

Nope, I used (the cool and powerful) Virtualbox, unlike a girl

Seriously, I would post my F10 gdm login screen, but it would look very familiar to everyone

RupertPupkin · #8 8th April 2009, 03:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sideways

Nope, I used (the cool and powerful) Virtualbox, unlike a girl

Virtualbox? That's for girls! A real man would use fbshot.

sideways · #9 8th April 2009, 03:56 AM

fbshot, lol

or, the much promoted Xen (that's for proper virtualisation peeps)

Right, getting back to the original topic, where are your login screens folks?

JN4OldSchool · #10 8th April 2009, 04:06 AM

Ashamed to say I am running GDM on the laptop. Mint 6 Fluxbox comes with Slim though, have that running on the desktop, just havent got around to changing this one yet. I kind of like the default login.

PabloTwo · #11 9th April 2009, 05:35 PM

Well, not a photo of the actual log-in screen, but a scaled down image of the 'preview.png' from the vernerable 'ol scan-fusion gdm theme. You get the idea.

aleph · #12 10th April 2009, 04:09 AM

What's this "login screen" thingy you guys are talking about? I haven't seen one since... oh wait, you mean you ever log out???

Jake · #13 10th April 2009, 02:13 PM

Hmm, default, I only see it every now and then so I'm not bothered

SIO · #14 11th April 2009, 07:56 PM

There is an easier way to take a screenshot of gdm: just use something like

Code:

chvt 8 ; sleep 5 ; XAUTHORITY=/var/lib/gdm/:1.Xauth DISPLAY=:1.0 import -window root /home/sio/gdm.png

And you'll have full sized screenshot of your login screen ;-) Like this one:

RupertPupkin · #15 11th April 2009, 08:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SIO

There is an easier way to take a screenshot of gdm: just use something like

Code:

chvt 8 ; sleep 5 ; XAUTHORITY=/var/lib/gdm/:1.Xauth DISPLAY=:1.0 import -window root /home/sio/gdm.png

That won't work if you don't have gdm installed (since /var/lib/gdm won't exist) or if you're using a different display manager, like kdm or xdm or wdm.

I just use Xnest (part of the xorg-x11-server-Xnest package) from within my X session. For example, my login screen resolution is 1280x1024, so when I login to X (using Window Maker), I open a terminal window and do this:

Code:

Xnest -geometry 1280x1024 -query localhost :1

That gives me a 1280x1024 window with the actual login screen (I could login to it if I wanted), which I can then take a screenshot of using the screenshot program of my choice (I use ImageMagick's import command, after getting the window ID using xwininfo). And it works from within X, no matter what display manager you're using.

For example, here's a shot of an 800x600 login screen from within my X session: