hieulw / lightdm-matrix

A simple terminal style theme for lightdm-webkit2-greeter

lightdm-matrix

About

A simple terminal style theme for lightdm-webkit2-greeter

Live demo

Screenshot

Installation

• cd /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/
• git clone https://github.com/eNzyOfficial/lightdm-tty.git tty
• vim /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf
• Find greeter section and set webkit-theme to tty

You can run ./test.sh to try it out if you like!

Arch Linux

lightdm-tty is available from the Arch User Repository (AUR). Install it with your favourite AUR helper, for example:

pacaur -S lightdm-webkit2-theme-tty-git

If you don't want to use an AUR helper, you can always build the package manually from the PKGBUILD included in the repository.

Features

• Command history using ↑ and ↓
• Clear input using ctrl+c
• Autocomplete using TAB

You can lock by using dm-tool switch-to-greeter or dm-tool lock

Commands

• login [user] - Attempts to login as user
• passwd - Attempts to login to locked/current session
• users = Lists users
• ls - Lists available sessions eg. i3
• poweroff - Shuts down machine
• reboot - Restarts machine
• suspend - Suspends machine
• clear - Clears output
• help - Lists available commands
• man [command] - Shows manual for command
• motd - Shows MOTD

TODO

• Make it more customizable
• Languages
• Layouts
• Add to Arch AUR

Contributions

Feel free to make contributions! Suggestions, bug reports and pull requests are welcome.

License

This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the WTFPL (Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License), Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See http://www.wtfpl.net/ for more details.