lightdm-tty

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

Contributions

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

Thanks for Tardog for adding it to the AUR

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.