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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 3, Login Managers
#21 Personalize Your Qingy Theme
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If you prefer a theme other than the default theme, you change the setting in
the /usr/local/etc/qingy/settings file. This line in the settings file controls
which theme is used:
theme = "default"
To use a different theme—the vendetta3 theme, for example—modify the
theme value like this:
theme = "vendetta3"
Save your changes. Then (as root) type the following command:
# killall qingy
Don’t worry; Qingy will restart by itself. That’s the purpose of the respawn
command in your /etc/inittab file. Now when your Qingy login screens reap-
pear, they should look something like Figure 3-3.
Personalize Every Terminal
You can assign themes or even screensavers (or not—the screensavers can be
quirky) to individual terminals by editing the /usr/local/etc/qingy/settings file
once again. This time add a definition for specific terminals (ttys), like this:
Figure 3-2. Default Qingy login screen
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tty=2
{
theme = "fireplace"
screensaver "pixel"
}
tty=3
{
theme = "vendetta2"
}
Save your changes. Then (as root) type the following command:
# killall qingy
Don’t forget that you have to edit the /etc/inittab file and
make Qingy the default for every terminal for which you
assign a theme. If you assign ...
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