Iskra

( lightdm-webkit-theme-iskra )

A beautiful, awesome themed login screen written on lightdm and the lightdm-webkit2-greeter.

Iskra, (from russian: И́скра, translated: spark) was the name of a political newspaper founded by Vladmir Lenin in 1900. Iskra's motto was "From a spark a fire will flare up". The editorial line championed the battle for political freedom as well as the cause of socialist revolution.

Try it out here, at the LIVE DEMO.

Iskra LightDM Webkit2 Theme

Features

• A beautiful Lockscreen slider
• Username promt (no userlist)
• Uses updated JavaScript API of Web Greeter for LightDM
• Shows the hostname
• Reboot, Poweroff, Suspend and Hibernation if avaliable
• Pick a random wallpaper from img/wallpapers folder

Screenshots

Prerequisites

• lightdm
• lightdm-webkit2-greeter
• npm

Installation packages of lightdm-webkit2-greeter for Ubuntu, Arch (and other distros) can be found here.

Installation

Clone the theme to /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/iskra-webkit-greeter:

$ cd /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes
$ git clone https://github.com/felipemarinho97/iskra-webkit-greeter.git iskra-webkit-greeter
$ cd iskra-webkit-greeter
$ npm install
$ ./build.sh

To select iskra as default theme just change the webkit-theme property in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit2-greeeter.conf to iskra-webkit-greeter

Wallpapers

To add more background wallpapers, copy the jpg files to img/wallpapers.

Uninstallation

To uninstall, 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:

• Remove the folder iskra-webkit-greeter which was created in /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/
• Restore the webkit-theme property of the /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit-greeter.conf file

Author

Felipe Marinho – [email protected]

If you have any suggestions please fell free to contact-me.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/FelipeMarinho97/iskra-webkit-greeter/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
5. Create a new Pull Request