Onboard

Theme on login screen different than during session

Bug #2000005 reported by Reinhard
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Bug Description

This one is driving me up the walls right now.

DM is lightdm, greeter session is slick-greeter, both preinstalled.
I got Onboard to show the same theme that I have been using during my session on my voyo vBook i7 tablet in "standard" Linux Mint 21 "Vanessa" Cinnamon, in my case modified "Blackboard", simply by adding the line

keyboard = onboard -t Blackboard [sic]

to

/etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf

Now I switched distros and went for LMDE 5 "Elsie" and it's not doing it anymore. I have tried changing the syntax to all thinkable solutions.
keyboard=onboard -t Blackboard
keyboard=onboard -t 'Blackboard'
keyboard=onboard --Theme=Blackboard
...

and so forth. I also looked into it in the dconf-editor and tried to change the schema in "/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas" and recompile it with "sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas"

It always shows the default theme (Nightshade)

What am I doing wrong? My OCD kicks in pretty badly :o

Cheers!

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Kanehekili (jentiger-moratai) wrote :

It seems that slick-greeter as well as lightdm-gtk-greeter can't cope with the "draw-user-background" setting. It is not working, so you have to set it to false and create your own background image. WTF

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Reinhard (kellogs667) wrote :

Hm, I'm not talking about the greeter background but about the theme onboard is using...

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Reinhard (kellogs667) wrote :

OK, the weirdest update now:

Since I couldn't find a way to get onboard using my modified Blackboard theme I installed Lightdm-GTK-Greeter and was tinkering around with it. I couldn't get it to look proper with my HiDPI screen. However with the additional "keyboard = onboard -t Blackboard" I got onboard to look like I wanted. But I switched back to Slick-Greeter by setting up the greeter session back to "slick-greeter". Rebooted and...
onboard was using the Blackboard theme! There isn't even a line stating that in the /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf
Couldn't find any mention of it!
I purged lightdm-gtk-greeter and all leftovers and it still sticks!
What the hell?

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