README.md

Hi, here you will find my thoughts about sddm.

This is my playground, be aware of this!

They will only work under qt5 at this time!

I have uploaded one black-theme (when I write black, I mean black) which is ready for qt6.

You will find it under downloads!

That are examples for my personal use and test.
I share them, but you have to keep in mind, that software could eat your pet!

To use it, you do it on your own risk!

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Now some Words to the themes:

Reminder: The themes only working with qt5, I will port them to qt6, but it need time!

• openspace is originally made for siduction with the name deepspace.
  I renamed it to "openspace" to avoid name confusions.

  • openspace has the same background like sddm-theme-patience for siduction without the branding!
  • For technical reasons, we had to change some things there (sddm-themes for siduction), only the repository is named to deepspace, because of historical reasons. sddm-theme-deepspace.

• The themes for siduction have other release names!

• mammoth has just another background and i play more with the technik,

  • the better choise is to use openspace!

• Work with openspace:

• You can change the background by your own. Take a look to theme.conf!

• If you choose to use a light background search for

  /* background Main block */    
   /************************************************** 
    * openspace is made for dark backgrounds
    * if you have light ones, choose a background color
    * at the moment it is "transparent"
    * also take a look to the topBar above
    **************************************************/ 
   Rectangle {
       id: mainBlock
       anchors.centerIn: parent
       width: 534
       height: 150
       color:  "transparent" //"black" //"#053343"
       opacity: 0.25
       radius: 9
   }
   /* end background Main block */

• be aware, the mainBlock is centered! (theme openspace)

  • in mammoth the block is a bit deeper because of the pictures
  • remember, mammoth is my playground, it is hard to modify, because of my spagetti-code there.
    But it works!

• no $user pics are displayed and no $user-name is automaticly displayed in the user_entry field

  • You want last succesfull logged in $user displayed? read the sources!
  • $user-pictures or avatars? no chance!

• all that fancy stuff is disabled!

If nothing helps, fetch sddm-theme-deepspace and modify it to your needs.
Or if you use siduction, search for "sddm siduction" (apt search sddm siduction).
For debian sid/unstable you are able to find them in the siduction repositories, amd64 and i386.
I told you, it is nearly the same, no fancy stuff and so on.

• poetry is like openspace but, ...

  • another background
  • no suspend and hibernate button
    • you can enable them verry easy, if you remove the comments
      (take a look to the source (Main.qml) and read!)
  • date, time and hostname are displayed now top center
  • the fotmat for displaying the date and time is a bit different
    • read the source, you will see and find a way to change it, if you want

• humming it is based on poetry with some changes

  • i made it for to use with my LXQT installation and i wanna share it, have fun with it!
  • the hummingbird picture/ logo is taken from https://github.com/Caig/LXQt-graphics and carefully modified

• 2001 just another space theme

  • now it is possible to show/ hide the password

    • if you want to disable that feature, look into the Main.qml file

  • as a workaround for

    • sddm/sddm#1199
    • and
    • https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412252

    (I know it doesn't fix the issues)

    • I added a timer for to reset the user_entry and the pw_entry
    • and an onPressed and onReleased function for the show/hidePasswordPrompt_button
    • (if you want that pressed and released feature, read the Main.qml file)

  • the icons now are *.svg, qt can handle it

  • have fun with it

  • and no, no last successfully logged-in $user will be displayed

    • read above how to enable it

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What is needed:

• sddm
• QtQuick 2.0 (normaly it should be automagicly installed together with sddm)
• QtGraphicalEffects 1.4 (qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects)

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How to test the greeter?

• You modified the greeter and wanna test it?
• You only want to see how it looks like?

No problem,

user@home:~$ sddm-greeter --test-mode --theme ~/download/path/to/the/sddm/greeter/theme/

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How to install?

Copy the theme folder to /usr/share/sddm/themes/

Don't forget to edit in /etc/sddm.conf

[Theme]
# Current theme name
Current=<your choise>  

In kf5/plasma you can use the sddm-kcm module ( kde-config-sddm) to choose via systemsettings the sddm-theme of your wishes.

For debian/unstable aka sid I have made for the sddm-theme-2001 a debian package!

You can download it from here

The Checksum for sddm-theme-2001_1.1_all.deb

The other themes will follow, but it needs its time!

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How it looks like?

openspace

mammoth

poetry

humming

icebear meets penguin

2001

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Last but not least

I try to keep them up to date, but i can't give any guarantee that it will be just in time!