ThinkPad GDM theme

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miketl · #1 Post by **miketl** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:32 pm

Hi,

I made a GDM theme in the ThinkPad style; it's available here.

Currently it looks best at 1024x768. I'm working on a higher resolution and widescreen version, but they may not be available for a couple weeks so I thought I'd post this now.

snessiram · #2 Post by **snessiram** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:48 am

It looks nice, might use it if you make a higher resolution version.

Are you also looking into changing the boot screen?

mattster · #3 Post by **mattster** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:59 pm

Wow! This looks great .... I'm hoping to get my fingerprint reader working on my T43p and then I can integrate this login screen. Any ETA on the high-res one?

Great work so far!
Matt

miketl wrote:Hi,

I made a GDM theme in the ThinkPad style; it's available here.

Currently it looks best at 1024x768. I'm working on a higher resolution and widescreen version, but they may not be available for a couple weeks so I thought I'd post this now.

miketl · #4 Post by **miketl** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:45 pm

I have a paper deadline on Nov 7, so sometime after that.

I hadn't thought of doing a boot splash, but that's a good idea.

Alexander Heß · #5 Post by **Alexander Heß** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:25 pm

Pardon me for jumping in, but I had some free time on my hands and vectorized the background image. I also blew it up to wide.

Since I now have all the material for this as SVG files, I should be able to build a GDM theme which not only scales to any resolution but also extends to widescreen resolutions.

My idea of extending is keeping the stuff in the middle – “Technologies and Design”, ”ThinkPad notebooks” and the vertical line – centered but moving the stylized keyboard and the IBM logo outwards as seen on the second image.

I also have the ThinkPad logo and the Lenovo logo as vectors. So if anyone wants a variant with these… It's possible to do that.

@Mike:

Do you want me to send you the files so you can build the GDM theme yourself or is it okay if I finish your work?

[edit] Screenshots removed - check latest post for actual screens

snessiram · #6 Post by **snessiram** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 6:29 am

Woow great work Alexander. Hoping to see your (or miletl's) package soon. Resolution-independence sounds great.

miketl · #7 Post by **miketl** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:00 am

Alexander Heß wrote:@Mike:

Do you want me to send you the files so you can build the GDM theme yourself or is it okay if I finish your work?

Wow, looks great, Alexander! Please proceed.

Alexander Heß · #8 Post by **Alexander Heß** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:40 am

snessiram wrote:Woow great work Alexander.

miketl wrote:Wow, looks great, Alexander! Please proceed.

Thanks.

I'll finish it then. I just have problems getting gdmthemetester to run. Looks like I have to setup a virtual machine for testing…

miketl · #9 Post by **miketl** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 4:39 pm

What I did was ssh'd in to the ThinkPad and edited the theme file, and then ctrl-alt-backspace to test. Not the best way, but works. I guess another option would be to use a tty <7 instead of ssh.

Alexander Heß · #10 Post by **Alexander Heß** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:44 am

I finally figured out how to run gdmgreeter in a Xnest so I could test and finish the theme.

And here it is!

TechnologiesAndDesign.tar.bz2 (55,820 bytes)

As you can see in these screenshots I left everything else the way it was. I just replaced the background with SVGs so it now scales and expands to almost any resolution.

Almost? Yes, an aspect ratio wider than 16:10 or narrower than 5:4 will look funny. But we're talking ThinkPads here. The only aspect ratios we have are 4:3 (1024×768, 1400×1050, 1600×1200, 2048×1536) and 16:10 (1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200).

#11 Post by **gator** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:41 pm

I love it ... thanks for sharing this with us. If you need help hosting this file let me know.

snessiram · #12 Post by **snessiram** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:25 pm

Thanks Alexander, I'll install it soon. Now if only there where a nice thinkpad bootsplash... *hint*

Alexander Heß · #13 Post by **Alexander Heß** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:32 pm

Bootsplash, huh?

If all distributions would use the same splash software and if this particular software would support SVG that would be real fun…

Maybe I'll make a usplash theme in the future. I'm bored by the default ubuntu usplash.

Maybe something like this with the blue line thingy as progress bar…

#14 Post by **carbon_unit** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:35 pm

That's pretty cool! Thanks!! I'll try to get it going as soon as Mint goes final.

RedGreen · #15 Post by **RedGreen** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:54 am

Using the login screen on my X61s (Ubuntu 7.10), I did not know that logging in could look this cool. Thanks for all the work on this guys! I will be eagerly awaiting a boot screen, maybe even a grub menu?
*crosses fingers*

Alexander Heß wrote:Bootsplash, huh?
Maybe something like this with the blue line thingy as progress bar…

I liked that picture enough to mess with it a little and use it as a background.

If anyone is interested here is that image 4:3 1024x768 with the IBM Thinkpad logo added to the top right (I moved it down a little so it would not be covered by my top panel):

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f81/R ... paper2.jpg

Here is the same image with the IBM logo at the very top right:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f81/R ... lpaper.jpg

miketl · #16 Post by **miketl** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:48 am

It turned out beautifully, Alexander. Thanks!

corsac · #17 Post by **corsac** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:22 am

Nice theme, except that it doesn't really fit the text for password or finger swiping :)

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