Day 3
It took me awhile to get a screenshot of my login screen. I want to display my efforts:
The second screenshot is my current desktop:
And it doesn’t look like Windows because it’s not Windows. It’s Linux.
colin
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March 13th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Hey,
How did you manage to get your wallpaper as a background for the login screen? I can’t seem to find how to do this.
Lee x
March 13th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Woo… share the icon set?
March 14th, 2008 at 2:05 am
@Lee: It’s actually extremely complicated. But I figured it out. 1st you need to install imagemagick (sudo apt-get install imagemagick) then logout, at the login screen press ALT+F2, at the screen that comes up login as root using your normal accounts password. Once logged in type in this command:
chvt 7 ; sleep 5 ; XAUTHORITY=/var/gdm/:0.Xauth DISPLAY=:0.0 import -window
root /tmp/screenshot.png
That is all one line. Type it in with spaces and all. Exactly how it’s shown. You’ll hear 2 beeps. Type in reboot. After the reboot log in and go to the /tmp/ directory to find your screenshot. You may need to change the permissions on the file, so run sudo nautilus and then right click the file and change the permissions to you instead of root.
@Vadim: The icon set is here: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/BuuF-Deuce-iconset?content=46201
May 5th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Hey c0lin,
Hope you had a fantastic Birthday, I have tried doing this thing that you told me to do but ALT + F2 at the login screen doesn’t do anything for me.
P.S - Where is that login screen again?
Lee
May 21st, 2008 at 12:25 am
Actually it’s probably ALT-F4 now that I think about it.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:29 am
Oh also the login screen I have can be downloaded here: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Avio-GDM?content=37395
May 21st, 2008 at 12:44 am
Actually it’s CTRL-ALT-F4. But there’s an easier way (this method didn’t work on gutsy for me so that’s why I used the over complicated method). Just run the command:
sudo apt-get install xnest
then:
gdmflexiserver –xnest
Once the window is open just take a screenshot.