/dot.sddm

Modern looking sddm qt6 theme

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🗼 Simple SDDM Theme 2 - QT6 🗼

This will be the SDDM version 2 theme to be installed in my Hyprland Scripts

A Simple theme variant for the SDDM Login Manager

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Install

Assumes that you've installed and configured SDDM correctly (if not read more)

Please make sure you have the following dependencies installed:

  • [For Arch Linux] qt6-5compat qt6-declarative qt6-svg sddm

  • [For Fedora Linux] qt6-qt5compat qt6-qtdeclarative qt6-qtsvg sddm

  • [For OpenSuse TW] qt6-qt5compat qt6-declarative qt6-svg sddm-qt6

Configure

Edit the or create if it does not exist /etc/sddm.conf.d/theme.conf.user (with any text editor with raised privileges), so that it looks like this:

sudo nano /etc/sddm.conf.d/theme.conf.user # use any text editor with raised privileges
---

[Theme]
Current=simple-sddm-2

Language and time format

  • By default, it is configured with 24H format. You can change to AM/PM variant by editing the theme.conf
sudo nano /usr/share/sddm/themes/simple-sddm-2/theme.conf  # use any text editor with raised privileges
  • HourFormat="hh:mm AP . Make sure to disable the above of this part

🖼️ Default SDDM background

  • To change the default background, put desired image in the /usr/share/sddm/themes/simple-sddm-2/Backgrounds/ folder and add the name of the image followed by its extension (.jpg or .png) in theme.conf file.

  • You can also customize it further if you wish in the /usr/share/sddm/themes/simple-sddm-2/theme.conf (blur, form position, etc).

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