How do I customize Gnome screen shield / curtain / login screen appearance?
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Gnome desktop seems configurable in various ways: in "Gnome settings", with gnome-extensions, gnome-tweak-tool, gsettings or dconf-editor.
However, apart from this procedure to change the login screen background, which involves a little bit of glib compiling, I have found no way to customize the appearance of:
- the login screen (font, position, color and size of the login boxes)
- shield screen aka lock screen aka curtain (font, position, color, format and size of the clock, displayed messages, etc.)
I understand that Gnome philosophy is not to allocate much resource in tweaky-tweak-tweaking-tweakable stuffs. But I am suprised that such basic and harmless properties of these screens seem so difficult to access.
Is there a way I can access and tweak login / shield screen organization properties?
Are they hardcoded or is it just a matter of sneaking into a small curtain.xml or loginscreen.json?
Do I need to get into the sources and compile gnome myself?
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Gnome desktop seems configurable in various ways: in "Gnome settings", with gnome-extensions, gnome-tweak-tool, gsettings or dconf-editor.
However, apart from this procedure to change the login screen background, which involves a little bit of glib compiling, I have found no way to customize the appearance of:
- the login screen (font, position, color and size of the login boxes)
- shield screen aka lock screen aka curtain (font, position, color, format and size of the clock, displayed messages, etc.)
I understand that Gnome philosophy is not to allocate much resource in tweaky-tweak-tweaking-tweakable stuffs. But I am suprised that such basic and harmless properties of these screens seem so difficult to access.
Is there a way I can access and tweak login / shield screen organization properties?
Are they hardcoded or is it just a matter of sneaking into a small curtain.xml or loginscreen.json?
Do I need to get into the sources and compile gnome myself?
gnome gnome-shell screen-lock dconf appearance
asked Feb 27 '17 at 16:21
iago-lito
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up vote
5
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Gnome desktop seems configurable in various ways: in "Gnome settings", with gnome-extensions, gnome-tweak-tool, gsettings or dconf-editor.
However, apart from this procedure to change the login screen background, which involves a little bit of glib compiling, I have found no way to customize the appearance of:
- the login screen (font, position, color and size of the login boxes)
- shield screen aka lock screen aka curtain (font, position, color, format and size of the clock, displayed messages, etc.)
I understand that Gnome philosophy is not to allocate much resource in tweaky-tweak-tweaking-tweakable stuffs. But I am suprised that such basic and harmless properties of these screens seem so difficult to access.
Is there a way I can access and tweak login / shield screen organization properties?
Are they hardcoded or is it just a matter of sneaking into a small curtain.xml or loginscreen.json?
Do I need to get into the sources and compile gnome myself?
gnome gnome-shell screen-lock dconf appearance
asked Feb 27 '17 at 16:21
iago-lito
7141524
Gnome desktop seems configurable in various ways: in "Gnome settings", with gnome-extensions, gnome-tweak-tool, gsettings or dconf-editor.
However, apart from this procedure to change the login screen background, which involves a little bit of glib compiling, I have found no way to customize the appearance of:
- the login screen (font, position, color and size of the login boxes)
- shield screen aka lock screen aka curtain (font, position, color, format and size of the clock, displayed messages, etc.)
I understand that Gnome philosophy is not to allocate much resource in tweaky-tweak-tweaking-tweakable stuffs. But I am suprised that such basic and harmless properties of these screens seem so difficult to access.
Is there a way I can access and tweak login / shield screen organization properties?
Are they hardcoded or is it just a matter of sneaking into a small curtain.xml or loginscreen.json?
Do I need to get into the sources and compile gnome myself?
gnome gnome-shell screen-lock dconf appearance
gnome gnome-shell screen-lock dconf appearance
asked Feb 27 '17 at 16:21
iago-lito
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asked Feb 27 '17 at 16:21
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asked Feb 27 '17 at 16:21
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Not sure if this is a little too late but you can customize the values in /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gdm3.css and that does the trick. Just find the screen-shield-clock class and make your changes. One simple thing I did to make it a little nicer is set the font-weight to 300 and it improves the look a million times.
answered Feb 25 at 0:55
Cezanne Vahid
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Hey, not bad. This could help a lot, cheers :) Have you found any piece of documentation regarding the meaning of these values? I couldn't find any. Also, do I need to restart or recompile something? I couldn't get any of my changes happening. The file I've found is calledgnome-classic.css.
– iago-lito
Feb 25 at 13:16
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweakinggnome-shell.cssorubuntu.css
– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 at 20:59
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 at 8:27
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Is there a way to completely uninstall the shield/curtain?
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Not sure if this is a little too late but you can customize the values in /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gdm3.css and that does the trick. Just find the screen-shield-clock class and make your changes. One simple thing I did to make it a little nicer is set the font-weight to 300 and it improves the look a million times.
answered Feb 25 at 0:55
Cezanne Vahid
212
Hey, not bad. This could help a lot, cheers :) Have you found any piece of documentation regarding the meaning of these values? I couldn't find any. Also, do I need to restart or recompile something? I couldn't get any of my changes happening. The file I've found is calledgnome-classic.css.
– iago-lito
Feb 25 at 13:16
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweakinggnome-shell.cssorubuntu.css
– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 at 20:59
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 at 8:27
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up vote
2
down vote
Not sure if this is a little too late but you can customize the values in /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gdm3.css and that does the trick. Just find the screen-shield-clock class and make your changes. One simple thing I did to make it a little nicer is set the font-weight to 300 and it improves the look a million times.
answered Feb 25 at 0:55
Cezanne Vahid
212
Hey, not bad. This could help a lot, cheers :) Have you found any piece of documentation regarding the meaning of these values? I couldn't find any. Also, do I need to restart or recompile something? I couldn't get any of my changes happening. The file I've found is calledgnome-classic.css.
– iago-lito
Feb 25 at 13:16
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweakinggnome-shell.cssorubuntu.css
– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 at 20:59
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 at 8:27
add a comment |Â
up vote
2
down vote
up vote
2
down vote
Not sure if this is a little too late but you can customize the values in /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gdm3.css and that does the trick. Just find the screen-shield-clock class and make your changes. One simple thing I did to make it a little nicer is set the font-weight to 300 and it improves the look a million times.
answered Feb 25 at 0:55
Cezanne Vahid
212
Not sure if this is a little too late but you can customize the values in /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gdm3.css and that does the trick. Just find the screen-shield-clock class and make your changes. One simple thing I did to make it a little nicer is set the font-weight to 300 and it improves the look a million times.
answered Feb 25 at 0:55
Cezanne Vahid
212
answered Feb 25 at 0:55
Cezanne Vahid
212
answered Feb 25 at 0:55
Cezanne Vahid
212
answered Feb 25 at 0:55
Cezanne Vahid
212
212
Hey, not bad. This could help a lot, cheers :) Have you found any piece of documentation regarding the meaning of these values? I couldn't find any. Also, do I need to restart or recompile something? I couldn't get any of my changes happening. The file I've found is calledgnome-classic.css.
– iago-lito
Feb 25 at 13:16
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweakinggnome-shell.cssorubuntu.css
– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 at 20:59
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 at 8:27
add a comment |Â
Hey, not bad. This could help a lot, cheers :) Have you found any piece of documentation regarding the meaning of these values? I couldn't find any. Also, do I need to restart or recompile something? I couldn't get any of my changes happening. The file I've found is calledgnome-classic.css.
– iago-lito
Feb 25 at 13:16
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweakinggnome-shell.cssorubuntu.css
– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 at 20:59
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 at 8:27
Hey, not bad. This could help a lot, cheers :) Have you found any piece of documentation regarding the meaning of these values? I couldn't find any. Also, do I need to restart or recompile something? I couldn't get any of my changes happening. The file I've found is called
gnome-classic.css.– iago-lito
Feb 25 at 13:16
Hey, not bad. This could help a lot, cheers :) Have you found any piece of documentation regarding the meaning of these values? I couldn't find any. Also, do I need to restart or recompile something? I couldn't get any of my changes happening. The file I've found is called
gnome-classic.css.– iago-lito
Feb 25 at 13:16
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweaking
gnome-shell.css or ubuntu.css– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 at 20:59
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweaking
gnome-shell.css or ubuntu.css– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 at 20:59
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 at 8:27
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 at 8:27
add a comment |Â
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Is there a way to completely uninstall the shield/curtain?
answered 4 mins ago
Joost Kooijman
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Is there a way to completely uninstall the shield/curtain?
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Is there a way to completely uninstall the shield/curtain?
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Is there a way to completely uninstall the shield/curtain?
answered 4 mins ago
Joost Kooijman
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answered 4 mins ago
Joost Kooijman
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