How To Change Login Screen Of Ubuntu Linux
Change is something which everyone in this world wants, lets start it with Ubuntu Linux’s login screen. Well it’s very guys, call it a level 1 stuff. By using the method below you can customize almost every aspect of your login screen.
Here’s how you can do it:
Step 1: Open a command line window
Step 2: Put this sudo cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow command in that window
Step 3: Now you’ll have to log-out, you’ll see a “Appearance Preferences ” window
Step 4: Go ahead and play around with it, change the theme, background, mouse cursor, and icons whatever you like and the way you like
Step 5: After customizing everything log-in again and put this command to prevent the Appearance window from opening at the GDM screen every time
sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop
And that was it!! You can play around with colors and download some extra themes.
Update: There’s also an easy way to do change your login screen but you’ll have to install a tweak for that. Enter the following commands in a terminal window to get it installed
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak
You can find Ubuntu Tweak in the Applications > System Tools menu
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