login screen image

[francois]

I am in nologin mode. Is there a way to change the image of the login screen? Is gdm the login manager for kde xfce?

Thanks.

[beny]

hi francois sddm is for kde, gdm is gnome login manager

[ncmprhnsbl]

are you asking about kde? because this is the xfce section of the forum

answer for kde / sddm:

because the kcm module for sddm settings (ie. the gui) will break root login if used, i left it out. (not sure it handled background directly anyhow)
so
to change the image: edit /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf
the line: background=/usr/share/wallpapers/porteus.jpg
change the path to your desired image..

for xfce/others/lxdm:

edit /etc/lxdm.conf
the line: bg=/usr/share/wallpapers/porteus-lxdm.jpg
change the path to your desired image..

[francois]

I was asking for xfce.

Thanks.

[Rava]

answer for kde / sddm:

I presume SDDM is this:
quoted from https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM

The Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) is a display manager. It is the recommended display manager for the KDE Plasma and LXQt desktop environments.

From Wikipedia:Simple Desktop Display Manager:

Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) is a display manager (a graphical login program and session manager) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems. SDDM was written from scratch in C++11 and supports theming via QML.

[ncmprhnsbl]

I presume SDDM is this:

yes

[francois]

Interesting to read in the /etc/lxdm.conf when you like to boot automatically into the root account.