How do I customize Gnome screen shield / curtain / login screen appearance?
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
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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-litoiago-lito
7741925
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
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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 '18 at 0:55
Cezanne VahidCezanne 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 '18 at 13:16
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweakinggnome-shell.cssorubuntu.css
– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 '18 at 20:59
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 '18 at 8:27
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I use ubuntu 18.04, (also done this in 17.10) and as of how @cezanee-vahid said, you can find the CSS file here: /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gdm3.css and by changing this file you don't need to restart gnome or do anything else, they will be changed by locking computer (or better to say will be reloaded).
so for changing clock size you only need to change font-size and font-weight for .screen-shield-clock-time class.
also for if you want to get ride off that arrows in the bottom of the screen just set 0 for height and width of .screen-shield-arrows Gjs_Arrow CSS selector. setting 0 for font-size of .screen-shield-clock-date will do the same for Date.
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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 '18 at 0:55
Cezanne VahidCezanne 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 '18 at 13:16
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweakinggnome-shell.cssorubuntu.css
– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 '18 at 20:59
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 '18 at 8:27
add a comment |
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 '18 at 0:55
Cezanne VahidCezanne 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 '18 at 13:16
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweakinggnome-shell.cssorubuntu.css
– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 '18 at 20:59
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 '18 at 8:27
add a comment |
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 '18 at 0:55
Cezanne VahidCezanne 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 '18 at 0:55
Cezanne VahidCezanne Vahid
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answered Feb 25 '18 at 0:55
Cezanne VahidCezanne Vahid
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answered Feb 25 '18 at 0:55
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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 '18 at 13:16
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweakinggnome-shell.cssorubuntu.css
– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 '18 at 20:59
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 '18 at 8:27
add a comment |
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 '18 at 13:16
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweakinggnome-shell.cssorubuntu.css
– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 '18 at 20:59
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 '18 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 '18 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 '18 at 13:16
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweaking
gnome-shell.css or ubuntu.css– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 '18 at 20:59
Huh. Perhaps in that same directory you can try tweaking
gnome-shell.css or ubuntu.css– Cezanne Vahid
Mar 12 '18 at 20:59
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 '18 at 8:27
Nope, doesn't have any : Is there any doc about this somewhere?
– iago-lito
Mar 13 '18 at 8:27
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I use ubuntu 18.04, (also done this in 17.10) and as of how @cezanee-vahid said, you can find the CSS file here: /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gdm3.css and by changing this file you don't need to restart gnome or do anything else, they will be changed by locking computer (or better to say will be reloaded).
so for changing clock size you only need to change font-size and font-weight for .screen-shield-clock-time class.
also for if you want to get ride off that arrows in the bottom of the screen just set 0 for height and width of .screen-shield-arrows Gjs_Arrow CSS selector. setting 0 for font-size of .screen-shield-clock-date will do the same for Date.
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I use ubuntu 18.04, (also done this in 17.10) and as of how @cezanee-vahid said, you can find the CSS file here: /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gdm3.css and by changing this file you don't need to restart gnome or do anything else, they will be changed by locking computer (or better to say will be reloaded).
so for changing clock size you only need to change font-size and font-weight for .screen-shield-clock-time class.
also for if you want to get ride off that arrows in the bottom of the screen just set 0 for height and width of .screen-shield-arrows Gjs_Arrow CSS selector. setting 0 for font-size of .screen-shield-clock-date will do the same for Date.
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I use ubuntu 18.04, (also done this in 17.10) and as of how @cezanee-vahid said, you can find the CSS file here: /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gdm3.css and by changing this file you don't need to restart gnome or do anything else, they will be changed by locking computer (or better to say will be reloaded).
so for changing clock size you only need to change font-size and font-weight for .screen-shield-clock-time class.
also for if you want to get ride off that arrows in the bottom of the screen just set 0 for height and width of .screen-shield-arrows Gjs_Arrow CSS selector. setting 0 for font-size of .screen-shield-clock-date will do the same for Date.
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I use ubuntu 18.04, (also done this in 17.10) and as of how @cezanee-vahid said, you can find the CSS file here: /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gdm3.css and by changing this file you don't need to restart gnome or do anything else, they will be changed by locking computer (or better to say will be reloaded).
so for changing clock size you only need to change font-size and font-weight for .screen-shield-clock-time class.
also for if you want to get ride off that arrows in the bottom of the screen just set 0 for height and width of .screen-shield-arrows Gjs_Arrow CSS selector. setting 0 for font-size of .screen-shield-clock-date will do the same for Date.
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