Re: How do I Install a Theme Into GDM

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On 20/10/16 11:54, Bryon Adams wrote:
On 10/19/2016 04:38 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
Hi,

    I have downloaded several themes from Gnome-looks.org for GDM, but I
can't find any documentation on the net for installing the theme (not
just the background picture) that actually works for F24. I've found
lots of documentation for updating the default background, but none of
that documentation is valid on my system as either the specified picture
file doesn't exist in the directory specified or the specified directory
doesn't exist. The files I've downloaded are tar.gz files which
Gnome-tweak won't accept as being Gnome-shell theme files (I've found
lots of doco on the net when searching for updating GDM themes that talk
about configuring Gnome Shell).

    Does anyone have any ideas on where I need to put the extracted
directories and how I tell GDM which of those themes to use?


regards,

Steve

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Hi Steve,
I believe you just need to dump them into "/usr/share/themes/" if you want everyone on the system to have access. Otherwise it should just be "~/.themes/" or "~/.local/share/themes/" I just put the one I use into "/usr/share/themes/" since I don't usually install things for single users. After that you need to fire up gnome-tweak-tool (if it was already open, close and re-open it) and select your new theme from the various drop downs in the Appearance tab.
Thanks Bryon, I've extracted the files to their directories and copied them into /usr/share/themes, but none of the drop downs in the Appearance tab in Gnome-tweak-tool show any of the new themes. Is /usr/share/themes to location for GDM themes? I've seen some doco on the net for installing GDM themes in Fedora that talk about having to update config files but I wasn't able to find the documented config files on my system. Is modifying config files the only way to update GDM themes, and if so which files do I need to update?

regards,
Steve

Cheers,
  Bryon
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