 Say what you want about default GNOME's lack of customizability, but what you can say is that because that exists it has prodded the community to come up with ways to make GNOME better and Perhaps that's the best thing about GNOME is that it spawns innovation amongst developers who are interested in using that desktop environment So today what we're going to do is take a look at a very early version of an application that allows you to mess around with GDM now if you don't know what GDM is GDM is basically the display manager or the login manager for GNOME. That is the first screen you come to when you boot up your computer It's the thing that you enter your password into and then it gets you into GNOME itself for the most part if you just use stock GNOME, this is completely Uncustomizable it's going to be whatever it is the way it is It's the way it always has been If you've wanted to edit it before you'd have to download something called GNOME tweaks And that would allow you to set the wallpaper That's basically all GNOME tweaks would let you do for the display manager But now there is a new application called GDM settings and what this application does is it allows you to edit Several different settings for the display manager your login manager. So let's go ahead and take a look at GDM settings So here we are on a fresh install of endeavor OS now the reason why I've chosen endeavor is simply because it's an arch based distro and It seems that the only distribution that GDM settings has been packaged for is arch Now you can go and install this on your system if you don't use arch You just have to build it manually, but I wanted to take the easy way out So I used an arch based distro so in order to install GDM settings You'd open up a terminal and you'd have to have a you are helper in order to do this endeavor has yay Installed by default. So you do yay dash s and then GDM dash settings And then enter you hit yes, and then you'd hit and for no and for no again and enter your password then I guess and Then why for yes, and they would install it now There is one Dependency that it may not install on its own if it tells you that it can't find this dependency Just copy that name and do yay dash capital s that name and it should install that and then you can go through and do GDM settings That's what I had to do, but it's not a big deal. It's just that one setting It isn't the a you are why it doesn't install as a dependency. I'm not sure But once you have installed we can close the terminal go to the launcher here and type in GDM settings And it's actually gonna come up with couple come up as login manager settings So here's what this application looks like if it you've ever used good own tweaks before You'll know that this looks fairly familiar. Here's what it does. So it allows you to tweak the appearance So you can change the shell icon and cursor themes for the display manager You can also change the background to an image or a color. So if you choose image, you'd allow you to choose Like a wallpaper or something if you choose color It'll allow you to change to several different colors including custom colors because it has a whole picker here So whether you choose a background or a color is up to you It allows you to change the fonts for the login manager It has access to all the fonts that you have installed on the system. You can choose to have anti aliasing Enabled or hinting enabled to full or disabled You can have the scaling factor. So if you have a high density screen So if you're like in 4k or something you can scale GDM up so that it's not so either so small or so large However, you need it to look you can scale it up a little bit. Now, I don't have a 4k screen So I'm not up on the lingo, but that's a good thing for people who do have high density displays You can also change the top bar to do certain things so you can change the text color the background color Disable the arrows and so on and so forth. You can also change the output of the clock So they will show the weekday and seconds or change from the 24 hour clock to regular a.m. You can also change show the battery percentage it has a sound now I didn't even know that GDM played sounds I hardly ever have my headphones on when the login manager pops up But you can change the sounds that GDM plays apparently through this panel here If you have a laptop and have a touchpad you can change certain functionality of the touchpad for the login manager And here's a really cool thing for those people who use a nightlight like Applications so things like coffee or redshift or whatever those things are called that remove blue light from the screen You can now enable that for the login manager as well So you're not blinded when you open up your laptop lid and then there are several miscellaneous Features that are actually really cool. So you can enter a login message. So you can say hello Matt and you can enable a logo. So if you want to if you have a logo you can you know upload a logo And it will show you a logo on the screen. We can turn that off And we can also disable the restart buttons and disable disable the user list so all those features really cool and Completely impossible to change at least as far as I'm aware without really some major tinkering without this application So let's go ahead and actually change some things here. So let's change the default shell to arc dark the icons to Paper and the cursor to paper. We will Let's find a wall paper here that we can use Okay, I've now found it found a picture that I can use so I just choose image choose file and I save that in pictures save that right here select and then we'll change the fonts to Noto something or the other we'll just do some kind of monofont. So let's see Let's just choose noto sands mono regular and we'll make the font 13 or 14 We'll select I will leave all this stuff the same The bar will change make sure the time is ampm. We'll leave the rest of this the same will be fine Actually, I wonder if it will allow you to change this to like transparent. That'd be cool But no, we'll change it to white and then the text color would then have to be black Select it's gonna look weird, but who cares. Oh wait a minute. I did that the wrong way That was dumb Matt who wanted that to be white. Then we needed to actually need to learn how to read So let's we'll change the background color to white The text color to black and we'll see how that looks. Okay, and then I'm not gonna mess around with the sound We don't have touch pad. I don't care about night light And then we'll just make sure that this has a welcome message. We'll apply It's gonna ask for a password and then we can close this now We're gonna log out and see what it looks like log out Now Here we go See this. Oh, it actually works. So that is what GDM settings actually does We have the wallpaper now ignore the odd aspects ratio slash whatever That's just because I'm gonna VM. I wish that the GDM settings allow you to change the display resolution Which is the word I was looking at before But it doesn't fortunately. I don't see the welcome message, but it's possible that it's offscreen I guess it doesn't really matter but That's a little disappointing because it is possible that it's offscreen, but that's still that's really cool Right, you can go through and do a lot of changes with this And I'm assuming like I said that the less stuff that I changed is offscreen because I don't see the clock here as well There's the clock. Oh, wait a minute. I bet you the welcome message is up there somewhere I just changed the let's go back to here and we'll actually change that the Bar color to something different because chances are the reason why I was having problems there Was because the background color of the bar was funky. So apply enter the password again Now we'll log out. Oh look at that. It changed the bar Interesting it changed the bar color up here as well. That's uh, hmm I wonder why it changed it system-wide instead of just in the the login manager We'll just go ahead and log out here. I guess it doesn't really matter, but that's something to keep in mind You also have to I should should have mentioned this in to begin with but this is alpha software It's very much an early development. So just know that it may crash And it may have features that don't work. For example, the the welcome message It doesn't seem to be here unless it's off in the corner somewhere and we just can't see it But it did go it did change the time so that yeah, it's actually a npm. That's really cool, right? So that is gdm settings. I'm not a big genome user Everybody pretty much knows this if you've watched the channel for any amount of time If you haven't watched the channel for any amount of time, make sure you hit that subscribe button I do a lot of crazy things. So maybe you'll like some of my future videos But everybody knows that I'm not a big genome user. I'm much more of a tiling window manager guy But I do enjoy the fact that because Genome is so locked down It has spurred other developers to develop applications that expand Genome's functionality They have created extensions. They've created other applications that just Tweak the settings that the genome folks don't actually want you to be able to tweak And that's what gdm settings is going to be able to do once it's been developed a little bit further I would say that there are some things here that are just not working yet It's possible that it's just because of virtual machine But it does state on their github page that this is awful software So some things just might not be there yet. 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