Chicago95/Lightdm/Chicago95

Chicago95 Greeter

Chicago95 is a greeter(read: a login screen) for use with lightdm and lightdm-webkit-greeter.

It has very limited functionality, but reminds you of that 90s aesthetic.

Documentation

You'll need to have lightdm and lightdm-webkit for this to work. On Xubuntu, you'd do something like:

sudo apt-get install lightdm lightdm-webkit-greeter

First, configure lightdm to use lightdm-webkit-greeter if you haven't already. To do so, open up /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf with vim or whatever and change it to something like this:

[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=lightdm-webkit-greeter
user-session=xfce

Next, configure lightdm-webkit-greeter to use Chicago95. You can do so by editing /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit-greeter.conf and setting theme-nameto Chicago95:

# background = Background file to use, either an image path or a color (e.g. #772953)
# theme-name = GTK+ theme to use
# font-name = Font to use
# xft-antialias = Whether to antialias Xft fonts (true or false)
# xft-dpi = Resolution for Xft in dots per inch (e.g. 96)
# xft-hintstyle = What degree of hinting to use (hintnone, hintslight, hintmedium, or hintfull)
# xft-rgba = Type of subpixel antialiasing (none, rgb, bgr, vrgb or vbgr)
#
[greeter]
webkit-theme=Chicago95

Finally, copy the Chicago95 folder to the lightdm webkit themes foler: /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/.

Dependencies

lightdm, lightdm-webkit-greeter and those nostalgic feels

License

This greeter is MIT-licensed, but few people care. Check out the LICENSE file if you think you've got what it takes.

Credits

This theme was based on paddy-greeter which you can find here:

• Paddy-Greeter by Kalman Olah