Hi,
I've been less than successful in moving the greeter window, and I've tried a lot. I already spend half a day with changing the background :(
It looks like I need some gtk+ themeing magic to do that, could someone please help out? Thanks!
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 22:03 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
Hi,
I've been less than successful in moving the greeter window, and I've tried a lot. I already spend half a day with changing the background :(
It looks like I need some gtk+ themeing magic to do that, could someone please help out? Thanks!
No, theming has no say on window positions. The question is kinda hard to answer without knowing how far you are willing to go...
It is certainly possible to patch gdm to make the window appear somewhere else. As things currently stand, the greeter insists on centering it.
You can use Alt+Left to move the window around at runtime (using the standard metacity shortcut), but thats not very persistent.
It is also possible to replace metacity with a different wm in the login session, that lets you override window positions.
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 05:45:35PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 22:03 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
Hi,
I've been less than successful in moving the greeter window, and I've tried a lot. I already spend half a day with changing the background :(
It looks like I need some gtk+ themeing magic to do that, could someone please help out? Thanks!
No, theming has no say on window positions. The question is kinda hard to answer without knowing how far you are willing to go...
It is certainly possible to patch gdm to make the window appear somewhere else. As things currently stand, the greeter insists on centering it.
You can use Alt+Left to move the window around at runtime (using the standard metacity shortcut), but thats not very persistent.
It is also possible to replace metacity with a different wm in the login session, that lets you override window positions.
gdm seems to support compiz instead of metacity. Would that give an configuration option for the position?
I don't want to patch gdm, I was hoping it would be configurable like in past days. How do all these million themes manage to reposition it?
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 01:15 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
gdm seems to support compiz instead of metacity. Would that give an configuration option for the position?
I don't think so.
I don't want to patch gdm, I was hoping it would be configurable like in past days. How do all these million themes manage to reposition it?
Lets start over...why do you feel that you need to reposition the window in the first place ?
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 06:21:49PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 01:15 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
gdm seems to support compiz instead of metacity. Would that give an configuration option for the position?
I don't think so.
:(
I don't want to patch gdm, I was hoping it would be configurable like in past days. How do all these million themes manage to reposition it?
Lets start over...why do you feel that you need to reposition the window in the first place ?
Because I managed to replace the background with a picture of a building carrying the words "entrace" in greek and german, but now the words (e.g. the feature of the picture) are being hidden by the greeter.
Thanks!
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