Overview

Pretty greeter is a lightdm-webkit based animated greeter using a mimicking of the Dock of OS X.

Pretty greeter uses CSS Dock V2.

Installation

Prerequisites

Pretty greeter is built on top of lightdm-webkit-greeter. So it has to be installed.

For Ubuntu users, if you haven’t already installed it, open a terminal and type:

apt-get install ligthdm-webkit-greeter 

Enable ligthdm-webkit-greeter by editing /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and by setting greeter-session property to lightdm-webkit-greeter :

[SeatDefaults]
#greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
greeter-session=lightdm-webkit-greeter
user-session=xubuntu

Pretty greeter installation

1. Download pretty greeter
2. Unzip it in https://github.com/jfbrazeau/lightdm-webkit-pretty-greeter/tarball/master
3. This should create a folder named like jfbrazeau-lightdm-webkit-pretty-greeter-28c4b13
4. Rename this folder to pretty (so that the complete path becomes /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/pretty)
5. Edit the resource /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit-greeter.conf and set webkit-theme property to pretty :

theme-name=Ambiance
#webkit-theme=default
webkit-theme=pretty
font-name=Ubuntu 11
xft-antialias=true
xft-dpi=96
xft-hintstyle=slight
xft-rgba=rgb

Now if you restart your computer (or at least if you restart lightdm), the pretty greeter should be activated.

Uninstallation

To uninstall pretty greeter, simply restore the greeter-session property of the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file and restart your computer (or at least lightdm).

You may also want to :

1. Remove the folder pretty created in /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/
2. Restore the webkit-theme property of the /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit-greeter.conf file

User icons management

To change users icons, there are two options :

• Create a .face file in the user’s home folder in which you put a jpg or png resource

Or

• Create a resource named with the user’s login in /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/
• Edit /var/lib/AccountsService/users/<userLogin> and add a property Icon targeting the icon resource you just created

Pretty greeter works well with 96×96 images.