h1. Overview

Pretty greeter is a @lightdm-webkit@ based animated greeter using a mimicking of the Dock of OS X.

!https://raw.github.com/jfbrazeau/lightdm-webkit-pretty-greeter/master/screenshot.jpg!

Pretty greeter uses "CSS Dock V2":http://michaelhue.com/cssdock/.

h1. Installation

h2. Prerequisites

Pretty greeter is built on top of lightdm-webkit-greeter. So it has to be installed.

For Ubuntu users, if you haven't already installed it, open a terminal and type:

bc. apt-get install ligthdm-webkit-greeter

Enable @ligthdm-webkit-greeter@ by editing @/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf@ and by setting @greeter-session@ property to @lightdm-webkit-greeter@ :

bc. [SeatDefaults] #greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter greeter-session=lightdm-webkit-greeter user-session=xubuntu

h2. Pretty greeter installation

Download "pretty greeter":https://github.com/jfbrazeau/lightdm-webkit-pretty-greeter/zipball/master

Unzip it in @https://github.com/jfbrazeau/lightdm-webkit-pretty-greeter/tarball/master@

This should create a folder named like @jfbrazeau-lightdm-webkit-pretty-greeter-28c4b13@

Rename this folder to @pretty@ (so that the complete path becomes @/usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/pretty@)

Edit the resource @/etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit-greeter.conf@ and set @webkit-theme@ property to @pretty@ :

bc. theme-name=Ambiance #webkit-theme=default webkit-theme=pretty font-name=Ubuntu 11 xft-antialias=true xft-dpi=96 xft-hintstyle=slight xft-rgba=rgb

Now if you restart your computer (or at least if you restart lightdm), the pretty greeter should be activated.

h1. Uninstallation

To uninstall pretty greeter, 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 @pretty@ created in @/usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/@

Restore the @webkit-theme@ property of the @/etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit-greeter.conf@ file

h1. User icons management

To change users icons, there are two options :

• Create a @.face@ file in the user's home folder in which you put a @jpg@ or @png@ resource

Or

• Create a resource named with the user's login in @/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/@
• Edit @/var/lib/AccountsService/users/<userLogin>@ and add a property @Icon@ targeting the icon resource you just created

Pretty greeter works well with 96x96 images.