A Simple theme variant for the SDDM Login Manager
Assumes that you've installed and configured SDDM correctly (if not read more)
Please make sure you have the following dependencies installed:
sddm >= 0.21.0
, qt6 >= 6.8
, qt6-svg >= 6.8
, qt6-virtualkeyboard >= 6.8
, qt6-multimedia >= 6.8
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[
For Arch Linux
]sddm
qt6-svg
qt6-virtualkeyboard
qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg
-
[
For Fedora Linux
]sddm
qt6-qtsvg
qt6-qtvirtualkeyboard
qt6-qtmultimedia
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[
For OpenSuse TW
]sddm-qt6
libQt6Svg6
qt6-virtualkeyboard
qt6-virtualkeyboard-imports
qt6-multimedia
qt6-multimedia-imports
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[
For Debian/ubuntu
]sddm
libqt6svg6
qt6-virtualkeyboard-plugin
libqt6multimedia6
qml6-module-qtquick-controls
qml6-module-qtquick-effects
Edit the or create if it does not exist /etc/sddm.conf
(with any text editor with raised privileges), so that it looks like this:
sudo nano /etc/sddm.conf # use any text editor with raised privileges
add this lines
[Theme]
Current=simple_sddm_2
[General]
InputMethod=qtvirtualkeyboard
- By default, it is configured with 24H format. You can change to AM/PM variant by editing the theme.conf
sudo nano /usr/share/sddm/themes/simple_sddm_2/theme.conf # use any text editor with raised privileges
HourFormat="hh:mm AP
. Make sure to disable the above of this part
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To change the default background, put desired image in the
/usr/share/sddm/themes/simple_sddm_2/Backgrounds/
folder and add the name of the image followed by its extension (.jpg
or.png
) intheme.conf
file. -
You can also customize it further if you wish in the
/usr/share/sddm/themes/simple_sddm_2/theme.conf
(blur, form position, etc).