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Windows 7 Login Screen SDDM Theme

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  1. Gallery

  2. Missing Features

  3. Requirement

  4. Installation

  5. Testing

Gallery

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Note

Huge thanks to wackyideas for creating Aero theme for Plasma, this SDDM theme uses some assets and codes from that theme.

Missing Features

Missing features from Windows 10 login screen that's planned to be added in the future:

Requirements

Important

Please install Segoe UI Regular and Segoe UI Light font to use this SDDM theme!

You only need to have SDDM installed and don't need any other extra Qt 5 or 6 plugins to install!

Installation

You can use installation script to install this theme, required fonts and Windows Cursors!

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/birbkeks/win7-sddm-theme/main/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

Important

Please make sure to install required fonts first!

From KDE Plasma system settings:

  1. Open System Settings.
  2. Go to Colors & Themes and click on Login Screen (SDDM).
  3. Click on "Get New..." and search for this theme, and install it from there.

Manual installation on KDE Plasma desktop environment:

1- You can download this theme from github releases or from store.kde.org page!
2- Extract "win7-sddm-theme.tar.gz" to /usr/share/sddm/themes.
3- Edit /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf and under [Theme], change Current= to Current=win7-sddm-theme.

If you're not using KDE Plasma:

1- You can download this theme from github releases or from store.kde.org page!
2- Extract "win7-sddm-theme.tar.gz" to /usr/share/sddm/themes.
3- Edit /etc/sddm.conf and under [Theme], change Current= to Current=win7-sddm-theme.

Testing

If you want to test this theme before using it, you can use this command on your terminal to test this or other SDDM themes. Make sure to replace "/path/to/directory" with the directory of SDDM theme you installed.

env -i HOME=$HOME DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY sddm-greeter-qt6 --test-mode --theme /path/to/directory

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