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Chapter 3, Login Managers

#21 Personalize Your Qingy Theme

HACK

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 ...