Change the Login Window Ubuntu 9.10

The look of the login window in Ubuntu 9.10 is now controlled by X11 instead of GDM. This is how you can customize your login. 1) Log out of your desktop session. 2) Hit CTRL+ALT+F1 for a terminal, then log in to the terminal. 3) Type export DISPLAY=:0.0 then ENTER. 4) type sudo -u gdm gnome-control-center and ENTER 5) Hit CTRL+ALT+F7 to return to the graphic session. 6) Click appearances icon and configure your login screen. 7) Close gnome-control-center and log in normally.

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Science & Technology

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• Ubuntu
• 9.10
• Gnome
• Login
• gnome-control-center
• gdm
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[MTMGmr1991]

what kind of docking system are you using?

i am currently using SimDock any other you might recommend?

[brtidwell55]

Its Avant Window Navigator

[scooby67e]

How did you set up the dual monitor

[brtidwell55]

I have a NVIDIA 9600 GT card. I set up the dual monitors in Nvidia X Server settings

[MaceStoner]

I don't know how you did what you did, but your instructions lead to the desktop background options...

[brtidwell55]

Yes. That now controls your login background as well

[bluephreakr]

This method implies you actually know what you're doing in nTTY.

A non-TTY way would be to open nautilus as admin, go to File System/usr/share/gdm/autostart­/LoginWIndow and put whatever you want to autorun in there. Example: Drag the "Appearance" menu entry into the window, then log out. Appearance comes up.

It's really awesome and even more flexible for a noob that way.

[maw88ify]

Now all you need to do is go and download a program called "Ubuntu tweak" and use it to change the logo-in screen... It's way easier now.

[maw88ify]

@fourdotsYT It was more important to what people did they ask you ?

I know they didn't ask me...

But did you try what I said... when your logged in you can use

gksudo -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-properties

it does the same thing , it changed the log-in screen

How do I make the log-in box transparent, where is it saved so I can change it ?

I want the box to be transparent not white ..

[fourdotsYT]

@maw88ify Yes it was easier. But it changed to make booting faster -it was deemed more important to more people,than changing the theme on your login screen(still possible with minor effort)

Advice:

Log an issue on launchpad.

Get comfortable with the console,it's really not that difficult.

Got it working in under 10 seconds.

Sometimes its even better than a GUI;e.g. getting help online, it's easier to copy-paste a couple of commands, than to read through long mayb wrong descriptions/screenshots

[maw88ify]

You don't have to do all this just right click on you desktop Create Launcher ...

Command ... is

gksudo -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-properties

it is way easier than this ...

[maw88ify]

In 9.10 you could just do this

Just right click on you desktop Create Launcher

give it any NAME

For the command use

gksu nautilus /usr/share/images/xsplash

click o.k. and your done you now have a short cut... and change the image

[maw88ify]

@fourdotsYT This is way harder to change the log-in... it is so much easier in 9.04... in 9.04 you just done load a theme like 73364-ubuntu-black.tar.gz to your home folder....

open System / Administrator and open the Local tab then click add... oooo hard...

[fourdotsYT]

@dale456654 'They' is 'us' - if you want you can make it easier yourself and share, or wait for someone else to do it.

BTW - they didn't make it hard; it's hard by nature, they just didn't get around to making it easy (after making it better) yet for the rest of... us. lol

Linux Power!

[davidkozat88]

Hi there after using your commands to change my login theme and login in only 40% of my screen is displayed in form of a square the rest is all dark is displays the screensaver fine but and when i log off i can see the full display but when i log back on the display shows me only a little square of about 40% is there a way of fixing this?

[dale456654]

@hunterdogcat7 I thought that was because of ext4.